| Description |
xx, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
International studies in global change, 1055-7180 ; v. 4 |
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International studies in global change ; v. 4
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| Contents |
1. Agency-Structure, Micro-Macro, Individualism-Holism-Relationism: A Metatheoretical Explanation of Theoretical Convergence between the United States and Europe / George Ritzer and Pamela Gindoff -- 2. Evolving Focus on Human Agency in Contemporary Social Theory / Piotr Sztompka -- 3. The Double Representation of the Actor in Theoretical Tradition: Durkheim and Weber / Elisa P. Reis -- 4. Marxism, Post-Marxism and the Actionalist Turn in Social Theory / Miguel A. Cainzos -- 5. Hermeneutics and the Theory of Social Action / Franco Crespi -- 6. Away from Structuralism and the Return of the Actor: Paradigmatic and Theoretical Orientations in Contemporary French Sociology / Francois Chazel -- 7. Postmodernism as Pseudohistory: Continuities in the Complexities of Social Action / Craig Calhoun -- 8. Two Conceptions of Human Agency: Rational Choice Theory and the Social Theory of Action / Tom R. Burns |
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9. Society as Social Becoming: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism / Piotr Sztompka -- 10. Sociology as a Discipline of Disagreements and as a Paradigm of Competing Explanations: Culture, Structure and the Variability of Actors and Situations / Goran Therborn |
| Notes |
Revised versions of papers presented at the World Congress of Sociology held in 1990 in Madrid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social action.
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Social structure.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Sociology.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Sztompka, Piotr.
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| LC no. |
93019945 |
| ISBN |
2881245927 |
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2881245978 (paperback) |
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