Realist Social Theory
The Morphogenetic Approach
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- Author: Margaret S. Archer, University of Warwick
- Date Published: April 2011
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Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, heralded in Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), and applies it to the problem of structure and agency, that is, how we both shape society and are shaped by it. Her aim is to capture the interplay between these two processes rather than collapse them into one, as has been the case with the traditional competing individualist and collectivist methodologies. The morphogenetic approach offers a new understanding of social change and poses a direct challenge to Giddens' structuration theory.
Read more- Offers a new and controversial approach to the problem of structure and agency, building on innovative work in author's Culture and Agency (1988)
- Directly challenges Giddens's structuration theory which has dominated debate recently
- Should have broad appeal, bridges philosophy of social sciences and social theory, and provides tools for practical social analysis
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511887529
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. The vexatious fact of society
Part I. The Problem of Structure and Agency: Four Alternative Solutions:
2. Individualism versus collectivism: querying the terms of the debate
3. Taking time to link structure and agency
4. Elision and central conflation
5. Realism and morphogenesis
Part II. The Morphogenetic Cycle:
6. Analytical dualism: the basis of the morphogenetic approach
7. Structural and cultural conditioning
8. The morphogenesis of agency
9. Social elaboration.
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