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Book SynopsisThis is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure/agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate â such as âsocietyâ and the âindividualâ â have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected. -- .
Table of Contents1. Introduction: the opposition of structure and agency – Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis
PART ONE
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
5. The two Habermases – Anthony King
6. Pierre Bourdieu: from the model of reality to the reality of the model – Richard Jenkins
7. 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
9. Beyond social structure – Richard Jenkins
10. Two kinds of social theory: the myth and reality of social existence – Anthony King
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