Margaret S Archer

Gebundenes Buch

Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

Beschreibung

"Margaret S. Archer is responsible for important conceptual developments in critical realism and the structure-agent problem but her explanatory framework often opposes those of other influential theorists. In this book she provides a response to critics of her work in the form of a set of discussions of published articles"--

Autor

Margaret S. Archer was Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She founded the Centre of Social Ontology at the Swiss Federal University, Lausanne, was the first woman President of the International Sociological Association and was appointed by Pope Francis (2014) as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Science. In April 2023, she was awarded the British Sociological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. She has written or edited 40 books and 95 articles and chapters including The Social Origins of Educational Systems (1979), The Relational Subject (with Pierpaolo Donati, Cambridge, 2015), The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity (Cambridge, 2012), Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility (Cambridge, 2007), Being Human: The Problem of Agency (Cambridge, 2000), Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory (Cambridge, 1996) and Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (Cambridge, 1995).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781009405416
• ISBN-10: 1009405411
• Artikelnr.: 67865340