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Culture and Agency
The Place of Culture in Social Theory

2nd Edition

Author: Margaret S. Archer, University of Warwick

Date Published: March 2011
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This is a revised edition of Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described as "a timely and sophisticated treatment", the book showed that the "problems" of culture and agency and structure and agency could be solved using the same analytical framework. The revised edition contextualizes the argument in 1990s sociology and links it to Professor Archer's latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (CUP, 1995).
- Revised edition of highly successful book, two new chapters update seminal work of cultural social theory
- Margaret Archer senior sociologist whose work has been highly influential internationally
- Relates explicitly to recent book Realist Social Theory
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'A timely and sophisticated treatment.' Sociological Review

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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511822353
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. The myth of cultural integration
Part I. Rejecting Cultural Conflation:
2. 'Downwards conflation': on keys, codes and cohesion
3. 'Upwards conflation': the duality of culture
4. 'Central conflation: the duality of culture
Part II. Reconceuptualizing Cultural Dynamics:
5. Addressing the Cultural System
6. Contradictions and complementarities in the cultural system
7. Socio-Cultural interaction
8. Elaboration of the Cultural System
9. Toeards theoretical unification: structure, culture and morphogenesis
10. 'Social Integration and System Integration'
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Margaret S. Archer, University of Warwick