05083cam a2200673Ki 4500 9781315678870 FlBoTFG 20260210180751.0 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 161116s2017 nyu ob 001 0 eng d OCoLC-P eng rda pn OCoLC-P 9781317392491 (electronic bk.) 1317392493 (electronic bk.) 9781315678870 (e-book) 131567887X 9781317392477 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket) 1317392477 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket) 9781317392484 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 1317392485 (electronic bk. : EPUB) 9781138932944 1138932949 (OCoLC)962752728 (OCoLC-P)962752728 HM706 .A73 2017eb POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh SOC 026000 bisacsh SOC 041000 bisacsh JHB bicssc 306 23 Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford), author. Works. Selections Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / edited by Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan and Graham Scambler. New York : Routledge, 2017. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Ontological explorations Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Realism's explanatory framework -- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- The myth of cultural integration -- The vexatious fact of society -- Morphogenesis versus structuration -- For structure : its reality, properties and powers -- The private life of the social agent -- The ontological status of subjectivity -- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors -- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity -- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform -- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach -- Interview with Maggie -- Annotated bibliography -- Index. Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of structure and agency, Archer's work has constituted a decade-long engagement with this perennial issue of social thought. However, in spite of the deep interconnections that unify her body of work, it is rarely treated as a coherent whole. This is doubtless in part due to the unforgiving rigour of her arguments and prose, but also a byproduct of sociology's ongoing compartmentalisation. This edited collection seeks to address this relative neglect by collating a selection of papers, spanning Archer's career, which collectively elucidate both the development of her thought and the value that can be found in it as a systematic whole. This book illustrates the empirical origins of her social ontology in her early work on the sociology of education, as well as foregrounding the diverse range of influences that have conditioned her intellectual trajectory: the systems theory of Walter Buckley, the neo-Weberian analysis of Lockwood, the critical realist philosophy of Roy Bhaskar and, more recently, her engagement with American pragmatism and the Italian school of relational sociology. What emerges is a series of important contributions to our understanding of the relationship between structure, culture and agency. Acting to introduce and guide readers through these contributions, this book carries the potential to inform exciting and innovative sociological research. -- Provided by publisher. OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. Social structure. Realism. Culture. Organization. 6051 POLITICAL SCIENCE Public Policy Cultural Policy. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays bisacsh Brock, Tom, editor. Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315678870 Taylor & Francis https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315678870 OCLC metadata license agreement http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf Taylor & Francis TAFR 9781315678870 90601 90600