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Structures of Power and Constraint : Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau Paperback / softback
Edited by Craig Calhoun, Marshall W. Meyer, W. Richard Scott
Paperback / softback
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Are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? Or are they essentially external constraints on human action, necessarily analyzed at a different level?
How are themes of power and constraint to be joined in a common analytic approach?
These have long been central questions for sociologists. since the collapse of functionalism as a unifying paradigm, however they have often appeared as the basis for sharp divisions between competing analytic paradigms.
The divide between structuralism and rational-choice theory has been one of the most prominent such splits.
Yet each approach has undergone a revival in past years.
The editors of this book, in honour of Peter Blau, brought together a wide range of distinguished sociologists who have taken positions on different sides of this issue and brings them into focus as parts of a common discourse on the place of social structure and concepts of strategic action in sociological explanation.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:508 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/06/2009
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- ISBN:9780521113168
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:508 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/06/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521113168