Structure and Agency
by Mike O'DonnellFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-06-15
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary
The relationship of social structure to individual and collective agency has been central to sociology from the outset. It remains so in period in which poststructuralists have challenged the idea of stable social structures and even the usefulness in social science of the concept of structure itself. The historical trajectory of the debate about the respective importance of structure and agency and the relationship between the two provides the narrative context of this collection of articles.The point of arranging this collection of articles predominantly in historical sequence is not simply a matter of convenience. Historical context has a major impact on forming the concerns of sociologists and, equally significantly, on the way they perceive and theorise the social world.Volume One: Modernity, Sociology and the Structure/Agency DebateVolume Two: Postmodernity - An End to the Structure /Agency Dichotomy?Volume Three: Structure/Agency Theories AppliedVolume Four: Network Theory - Transcending the Traditional Limits of Structure/Agency
Table of Contents
| Modernity, Sociology and the Structure/Agency Debate | |
| Seminal Sources: Marx, Weber and Durkheim | |
| On Class | |
| Definitions of Sociology and Social | |
| The Conflict between Methodology and Rationalisation in the Work of Max Weber | |
| From "Suicide: A study in sociology | |
| American Structural-Functionalism | |
| Parson's Action-System Requisite Model and Weber's Elective Affinity: A convergence of convenience | |
| Overcoming Structure and Agency: Talcott Parsons, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the theory of social action | |
| Structure and Anomie | |
| The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology | |
| Symbolic Interactionism | |
| From "Mind, Mind Self and Society: From the standpoint of a social behaviourist" | |
| Goffman on Organizations | |
| The Sociology of Self | |
| Alfred Schutz and the 'Objectifying Attitude' | |
| The Two Sociologies | |
| Structuralism, Poststructuralism and the Cultural Turn | |
| Desire and Drive in Researcher Subjectivity: The broken mirror of Lacan | |
| The Power of the Imaginary in Disciplinary Processes | |
| Agency: The internal split of structure | |
| Born-Again Functionalism: a reconsideration of Althusser's structuralism | |
| Structures, Strategies and the Habitus | |
| Some Implications of Pierre Bourdieu's Work for the Theory of Social Self Organizations | |
| Epistemology and Method: Althusser, Foucault, Derrida | |
| Agency and Change: Re-evaluating Foucault's legacy | |
| Bourdieu, Critic of Foucault: The case of rmpirical social science against double-game-philosophy | |
| Critical Theory; Structuration Theory; Critical Realism; and Indentity Theory | |
| Critical Theory: Adorno, Habermas, Marcuse | |
| Reading Bourdieu with Adorno: The limits of critical theory and reflexive sociology | |
| Pragmatism and Critical Theory | |
| The self-empowered subject: Habermas, Foucault and hermeneutic reflexivity | |
| Structuration Theory: The Dualism/Duality Debate | |
| From "The Constitution of Society: Outline of the theory of structuration" | |
| A Theory of Structure: Duality, agency and transformation | |
| Institutional Responsibility and Hidden Meanings | |
| Cultural Consumption Analysis: Beyond structure and agency | |
| Social and System Integration: Lockwood, Habermas, Giddens | |
| Radically Reconstituting the Subject: Social theory and human nature | |
| Critical Realism | |
| Morphogenesis versus Structuration: On combining structure and action | |
| The Archers; a Tale of Folk (Final Episode?) | |
| Challenging Dualism: Public professionalism in 'troubled' times | |
| Refusing the Realism-Structuration Divide | |
| Structure, Self, Agency and Identity | |
| Identity as an analysis problem: who's who in 'pro ana' websites | |
| What is Identity? | |
| Performativity Identified | |
| Narrating Human Actions: The subjective experience of agency, structure, communion and serendipity | |
| Contingency, contestation and hegemony: The possibility of a non-essentialist politics of the left | |
| Structure/Agency Theories Applied | |
| Class | |
| Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process | |
| With a little class: A critique of identity politics | |
| Violence and Revolutionary Subjectivity: Marx to Zizek | |
| The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A response to recent critiques | |
| Organizations and Employment | |
| Implications of Self-Reference: Niklas Luhmann's autopoiesis and organization theory | |
| The New Structuralism in Organizational Theory | |
| Gender | |
| Theorising Patriarchy | |
| Structure and Agency in Socialist-Feminist Thought | |
| Agency, Anticipation and Determinacy in Feminist Theory | |
| Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the concept | |
| 'Race', Ethnicity and Agency | |
| Women, Men and Class Revisited: An assessment of the utility of a combined schema in the context of minority Ethnic educational achievement in Britain | |
| The Social Geographies of White Masculitinites | |
| The Life Course | |
| Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood: Two developmental routes in the individuation process | |
| Women Growing Older: Agency, ethnicity and culture | |
| Disability | |
| Agency, Structure, and the Transition to Disability: A case study with implications for life history research | |
| Love's Labour Lost? Feminism, the disabled people's movement and an ethic of care | |
| The Body: Embodiment | |
| The Undersocialised Conception of the Embodied Agent In Modern Sociology | |
| 'Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's theory of sex/gender | |
| Network Theory, Globalisation Theory, Hegemony | |
| Networks | |
| The Network Society: From knowledge to policy | |
| Reflexivity as Non-linearity | |
| Internet and self-regulation in China: The cultural logic of controlled commodification | |
| Globalisation, Social Movements | |
| Simmel to Rokkan and Beyond: Towards a network theory of (new) social movements | |
| The Gordian Knot of Agency-Structure in International Relations: A neo-Gramscian perspective | |
| Culture, Identity and Hegemony: The body in a global age | |
| Human Well-Being and Social Structures: Relating the universal and the local | |
| The Crisis of Identity in High Modernity | |
| Conclusion/Continuation | |
| Conclusion/Continuation | |
| The Paradox of the Two Sociologies: Hobbes, Latour and the constitution of modern social theory | |
| Alexander and the Cultural Refounding of American Sociology | |
| 'Agency' as a Red Herring in Social Theory | |
| Beyond Reform: Agency after theory | |
| From Factors to Actors: Computational sociology and agent-based modeling | |
| What is Agency? | |
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