LEADER 03594oam 22006854a 450 001 9910798742703321 005 20221202234356.0 010 $a0-7190-9519-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000870179 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4705515 035 $a(OCoLC)960165190 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78040 035 $a(DE-B1597)658744 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780719095191 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000870179 100 $a20161112d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHuman agents and social structures 210 1$aOxford :$cManchester University Press,$d2016. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2020 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) 311 $a0-7190-8172-6 311 $a0-7190-7861-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a6. Pierre Bourdieu: from the model of reality to the reality of the model: Richard Jenkins7. The production and reproduction of social order: is structuration a solution?: Wes Sharrock; 8. On the reception of Foucault: Allison Cavanagh and Alex Dennis; PART THREE: After the debate; 9. Beyond social structure: Richard Jenkins; 10. Two kinds of social theory: the myth and reality of social existence: Anthony King; Bibliography; Index. 327 $aHUMAN AGENTS and SOCIAL STRUCTURES; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; PART ONE: General issues; 1. Introduction: the opposition of structure and agency: Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis; 2. The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies: Wes Sharrock and Graham Button; 3. On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology: Peter J. Martin; 4. Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes: Marx and modern social theory: Alex Dennis; PART TWO: Recent social theorists; 5. The two Habermases: Anthony King. 330 $aThe structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual. The contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which tha. 606 $aSocial structure$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01123372 606 $aAgent (Philosophy)$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00800204 606 $aAgent (Philosophy) 606 $aSocial structure 610 $aAnthony Giddens. 610 $aJurgen Habermas. 610 $aKarl Marx. 610 $aMichel Foucault. 610 $aPierre Bourdieu. 610 $acontemporary social theory. 610 $ahuman agents. 610 $asocial structure. 610 $asociological thought. 610 $astructuration theory. 610 $astructure-agency dualisms. 615 7$aSocial structure. 615 7$aAgent (Philosophy) 615 0$aAgent (Philosophy) 615 0$aSocial structure. 676 $a301 700 $aMartin$b Peter J$0374228 701 $aDennis$b Alex$01515709 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798742703321 996 $aHuman agents and social structures$93751678 997 $aUNINA