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" Culture and agency : "
Margaret S. Archer.
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BL
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988876
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b743246
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| Main Entry
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Archer, Margaret Scotford.
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Culture and agency : : the place of culture in social theory /\ Margaret S. Archer.
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Rev. ed.
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 1996.
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xxix, 351 pages ;; 24 cm
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0521564271
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: 0521564417
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: 9780521564274
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: 9780521564410
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-347) and index.
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| Contents
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1 -- The Myth of Cultural Integration -- 2 -- 'Downwards conflation': on keys, codes and cohesion -- 3 -- 'Upwards conflation': the manipulated consensus -- 4 -- 'Central conflation': the duality of culture -- The different forms of conflation and their deficiencies: a summary of Part I -- 5 -- Addressing the Cultural System -- 6 -- Contradictions and complementarities in the Cultural System -- 7 -- Socio-Cultural interaction -- 8 -- Elaboration of the Cultural System -- 9 -- Towards theoretical unification: structure, culture and morphogenesis -- 10 -- 'Social integration and System integration'.
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"People inescapably are shaped by the culture in which they live, while culture itself is made and remade by people. Human beings in their daily lives feel a genuine freedom of thought and belief, yet this is unavoidably constrained by cultural limitations -- such as those by language spoken, the knowledge developed and the information available at any time. Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency, first published in 1988, proved a seminal contribution to the case for the relatively autonomous role of culture in sociological thought. Described in Sociological Review as 'a timely and sophisticated treatment', the book showed that the 'problems' of culture and agency, on the one hand, and structure and agency, on the other, could be solved using the same analytical framework. In this revised edition of Culture and Agency, incorporating two new chapters, Margaret Archer contextualises her argument in 1990s cultural sociology and links it explicitly to her latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1995). A third volume is planned, and together they will constitute a major statement on culture and society by one of the world's leading social theorists" --
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Culture.
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Social integration.
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Social structure.
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Social structure.
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Social integration.
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Culture.
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Intégration sociale.
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Structure sociale.
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Culture.
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Social integration.
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Social structure.
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Cultuur.
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Sociaal handelen.
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Sociale structuur.
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| Dewey Classification
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306
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HM101.A654 1996
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361.5njb/08
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361.5njb/8
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71.50bcl
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