Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic ApproachCambridge University Press, 19 okt 1995 - 354 pagina's Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and agency, Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common practice - whether in upwards conflation (by the aggregation of individual acts) downwards conflation (through the structural orchestration of agents), or, more recently, in central conflation which holds the two to be mutually constitutive and thus precludes any examination of their interplay by eliding them. Realist social theory: the morphogenetic approach thus not only rejects methodological individualism and collectivism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one between elisionary theorizing (such as Giddens' structuration theory) and the emergentist theories based on a realist ontology of the social world. The morphogenetic approach is the sociological complement of transcendental realism, and together they provide a basis for non-conflationary theorizing which is also of direct utility to the practising social analyst. |
Inhoudsopgave
The vexatious fact of society | 1 |
The problems of structure and agency four alternative solutions | 31 |
Individualism versus Collectivism querying the terms of the debate | 33 |
Methodological Individualism | 34 |
Methodological Collectivism | 46 |
Contesting the terms of the traditional debate | 57 |
Taking time to link structure and agency | 65 |
Elision and central conflation | 93 |
Four institutional configurations and their situational logics | 218 |
Four cultural configurations and their situational logics | 229 |
The Morphogenesis of agency | 247 |
the double morphogenesis | 257 |
the triple morphogenesis | 274 |
genesis and morphogenesis | 280 |
Social elaboration | 294 |
The conditions of morphogenesis and morphostasis | 295 |
Realism and morphogenesis | 135 |
The morphogenetic cycle | 163 |
Analytical dualism the basis of the morphogenetic approach | 165 |
stability and change | 170 |
Structural and cultural conditioning | 195 |
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Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach Margaret S. Archer Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1995 |
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action activities actors analytical dualism Anthony Giddens assertion autonomy basic become Bhaskar causal powers central conflation Collectivism Collectivist complementarity concepts conflationary conflationists confront consequences contingent Corporate Agents David Lockwood defined dependent differential distinction domains educational effects Elisionists emergent properties empiricism entails entities epiphenomenal existence explanation explanatory Giddens Holism human ideas ideational independent Individualist instantiation institutional internal and necessary interplay material interest groups matter Max Weber mediated Methodological individualism morphogenesis morphostasis nature notion numbers ontological opportunity costs outcome particular personal psychology positions practical social precisely Primary Agents problem realist reference reification relations relationship reproduction role Roy Bhaskar rules and resources situational logic social context social interaction social ontology social practices social reality social structure social theory society Socio-Cultural sociological structural and cultural structural conditioning structural domain structural elaboration structural properties structuration theory structure and agency temporal tion TMSA transformation unintended vested interests whilst