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Informationen zum Autor Peter J. Martin is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Manchester. Klappentext This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate - such as 'society' and the 'individual' - have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. Zusammenfassung This is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate – such as ‘society’ and the ‘individual’ – have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the opposition of structure and agency - Peter J. Martin and Alex DennisPART ONE2. The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies - Wes Sharrock and Graham Button3. On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology - Peter J. Martin4. Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes: Marx and modern social theory - Alex DennisPART TWO5. The two Habermases - Anthony King6. 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 Sharrock8. On the reception of Foucault - Allison Cavanagh and Alex DennisPART THREE9. Beyond social structure - Richard Jenkins10. Two kinds of social theory: the myth and reality of social existence - Anthony KingBibliographyIndex
