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The causal power of social structures : emergence, structure and agency / Dave Elder-Vass

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press [2010], 2010

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index

Erscheint auch als: Elder-Vass, Dave : Causal power of social structures. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-511-93240-5 (electronic bk.); 0-511-92722-3 (electronic bk.); 978-0-511-93240-3 (electronic bk.); 978-0-511-92722-5 (electronic bk.)

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Basisklassifikation: 71.10 ; 71.10

bisacsh: SOC 002000 ; bisacsh: SOC 053000

LOC-SH: Social structure ; Causation ; Electronic books

SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Causation ; Social structure ; Sozialstruktur ; Sozialstruktur ; Macht

"The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over too years. This book offers a new solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions."--Jacket

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Introduction -- Emergence -- Cause -- Social ontology and social structure -- Agency -- Normative institutions -- Organisations -- Social events -- Conclusion.