Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-179) and index.
Contents:
the myth and reality of social existence / Introduction : the opposition of structure and agency / Anthony King. The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies / Wes Sharrock and Graham Button ; On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology / Peter J. Martin ; Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes : Marx and modern social theory / Alex Dennis -- Recent social theorists. The two Habermases / Anthony King ; Pierre Bourdieu : from the model of reality to the reality of the model / Richard Jenkins ; The production and reproduction of social order : is structuration a solution? / Wes Sharrock ; On the reception of Foucault / Allison Cavanagh and Alex Dennis -- After the debate. Beyond social structure / Richard Jenkins ; Two kinds of social theory : the myth and reality of social existence / Anthony King.
Summary:
The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in discussions of social theory. This book is not intended as an even-handed review of the debate, but as a deliberately polemical intervention which aims to highlight some of the ways in which its central terms have been misconceived.
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