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  • HeBIS  (11)
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  • Archer, Margaret Scotford  (11)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (8)
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  • 1
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203133897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301.01
    Abstract: Rational Choice Theory is flourishing in sociology and is increasingly influential in other disciplines. Contributors to this volume are convinced that it provides an inadequate conceptualization of all aspects of decision making: of the individuals who make the decisions, of the process by which decisions get made and of the context within which decisions get made. The ciritique focuses on the four assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice: rationality: the theory's definition of rationality is incomplete, and cannot satisfactorily incorporate norms and emotions individualism: rational choice is based upon atomistic, individual decision makers and cannot account for decisions made by ;couples', 'groups' or other forms of collective action process: the assumption of fixed, well-ordered preferences and 'perfect information' makes the theory inadequate for situations of change and uncertainty aggregation: as methodological individualists, rational choice theorists can only view structure and culture as aggregates and cannot incorporate structural or cultural influences as emergent properties which have an effect upon decision making. The critique is grounded in discussion of a wide range of social issues, including race, marriage, health and education.
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  • 2
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781135077020
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (459 pages)
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view on some cultural and structural changes involving Western societies after the world economic crisis of 2008, from the point of view of Critical Realism. Global society is often regarded as disrupting identities and blurring boundaries, one which entails giving up ideas of structure and fixity. Globalization supposedly introduces a "liquid" era of fluidity where everything is possible, and anything goes. Nevertheless, its current dynamics are developing into a harder reality: wars, economic crisis, the haunting risk of pandemics, the ever worsening food supply crisis, and the environmental challenge. These social facts call for a dramatic shift in the optimistic cosmopolitan mood and the thought that we can build and rebuild ourselves and our world as we please, at least for the most developed countries. The challenges we face produce new forms of social life and individual experience. They also require us to develop new frameworks to analyze emergent contexts, institutional complexes and morphogenetic fields, and new ways to understand human agency and the meaning of emancipation. The book broadly falls into three parts: The first, "Social Ontology and a New Historical Formation", deals with mainly social ontological issues, insofar as they are connected to social scientific and public issues in the emerging society of the XXI century.The second, "Being human and the adventure of agency", is concerned with the way human beings adapts to the "new world" of "our times", and comes up with innovative models of agency and socialization. The third, "The constitutionalization of the new world", explores critical realist perspectives, as compared to system-theoretical ones, on the issue of global order and...
    Abstract: justice.In all of this, the challenge is to engage with this "new world" in a meaningful way, a task for which a realist mind set is badly needed. Critical realism provides a strong theoretical framework that can meet the challenge, and the book explores its contribution to making sense of, and coming to terms with, this historical formation.
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  • 3
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    London : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781136660900
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (848 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Classical Texts in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism) Ser.
    DDC: 306.43
    Abstract: First published in 1979, this now classic text presents a major study of the development of educational systems, focusing in detail on those of England, Denmark, France, and Russia - chosen because of their present educational differences and the historical diversity of their cultures and social structures. Professor Archer goes on to provide a theoretical framework which accounts for the major characteristics of national education and the principal changes that such systems have undergone. Now with a new introduction, Social Origins of Educational Systems is vital reading for all those interested in the sociology of education. Previously published reviews: 'A large-scale masterly study, this book is the most important contribution to the sociology of education since the second world war as well as being a substantial contribution to the consolidation of sociology itself.' - The Economist 'I cannot improve on her own statement of what she is trying to do: 'The sociological contribution consists in providing a theoretical account of macroscopic patterns of change in terms of the structural and cultural factors which produce and sustain them'...Unquestionably, this book is an impressive work of scholarship, well planned conceptually and uniting its theoretical base with a set of four thoroughly and interestingly researched case-studies of the history of the educational systems of Denmark, England, France and Russia.' - British Journal of the Sociology of Education 'This magnificent treatise seriously explores many of the most recalcitrant questions about institutional systems.' - Journal of Curriculum Studies 'A gargantuan and impressive socio-historical enterprise.' - Encounter '...a major achievement.' - New Society.
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107020955 , 9781139376112
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 340 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
    DDC: 303.3/2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: What do young people want from life? This book shows how the 'internal conversation' guides individual choices
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover ; The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The acceleration of morphogenesis and the extension of reflexivity; The present study; 1: A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative; Different ways of being reflexive; Modes of reflexivity and situational logics of action; Morphostasis, 'contextual continuity' and communicative reflexivity; Morphostasis/morphogenesis, 'contextual discontinuity' and autonomous reflexivity; Morphogenesis, 'contextual incongruity' and meta-reflexivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflexivity and nascent morphogenesisConclusion; 2: The reflexive imperative versus habits and habitus; Introduction; The relevance of the morphostatic-morphogenetic continuum; Morphostasis-morphogenesis and contextual continuity, discontinuity and incongruity; The hegemony of habit depends upon societal morphostasis; Parity of importance between habit and reflexivity coincides with social formations which are simultaneously morphostatic and morphogenetic (i.e. situated towards the mid-point of the continuum); Increases in reflexivity depend upon morphogenesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Can realism and habit be run in double harness?Three attempts to combine habitus and reflexivity; Empirical combination; Hybridizing habitus and reflexivity; Ontological and theoretical reconciliation; Socialization isn't what it used to be; Conclusion: turning the tables; 3: Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Traditional theories of socialization; The social conditions of the generalized other; Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Relational goods in the family: their influence upon selection and reflexivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Shaping a life and relational reflexivityStarting to shape a life - defining what matters to us; The problem of configuring our concerns; Adducing a relational solution; Illustrating the relational solution; Conclusion; 4: Communicative reflexivity and its decline; Why the reflexive imperative cannot be avoided; Introducing the natal 'identifiers'; Is going to university an exciting opportunity?; Upon what does maintaining communicative reflexivity depend?; 'Identifiers' and family relations; The hard work of staying close; Home friends versus university friends
    Description / Table of Contents: Career planning and the difficulties of shaping a lifeThe suspension of communicative reflexivity; Conclusion; 5: Autonomous reflexivity: the new spirit of social enterprise; Family lives: receiving 'mixed messages' and responding to them; Friendships and relationships: sources of diversion or deflection?; Careers: the new spirit of social enterprise; Conclusion: the future of autonomous reflexivity; 6: Meta-reflexives: critics of market and state; Family tensions and meta-reflexivity; Meta-reflexives and the challenge of friendship
    Description / Table of Contents: Meta-reflexives: careers, commitments and seizing opportunities
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The acceleration of morphogenesis and the extension of reflexivity; The present study; 1: A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative; Different ways of being reflexive; Modes of reflexivity and situational logics of action; Morphostasis, 'contextual continuity' and communicative reflexivity; Morphostasis/morphogenesis, 'contextual discontinuity' and autonomous reflexivity; Morphogenesis, 'contextual incongruity' and meta-reflexivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflexivity and nascent morphogenesisConclusion; 2: The reflexive imperative versus habits and habitus; Introduction; The relevance of the morphostatic-morphogenetic continuum; Morphostasis-morphogenesis and contextual continuity, discontinuity and incongruity; The hegemony of habit depends upon societal morphostasis; Parity of importance between habit and reflexivity coincides with social formations which are simultaneously morphostatic and morphogenetic (i.e. situated towards the mid-point of the continuum); Increases in reflexivity depend upon morphogenesis
    Description / Table of Contents: Can realism and habit be run in double harness?Three attempts to combine habitus and reflexivity; Empirical combination; Hybridizing habitus and reflexivity; Ontological and theoretical reconciliation; Socialization isn't what it used to be; Conclusion: turning the tables; 3: Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Traditional theories of socialization; The social conditions of the generalized other; Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Relational goods in the family: their influence upon selection and reflexivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Shaping a life and relational reflexivityStarting to shape a life - defining what matters to us; The problem of configuring our concerns; Adducing a relational solution; Illustrating the relational solution; Conclusion; 4: Communicative reflexivity and its decline; Why the reflexive imperative cannot be avoided; Introducing the natal 'identifiers'; Is going to university an exciting opportunity?; Upon what does maintaining communicative reflexivity depend?; 'Identifiers' and family relations; The hard work of staying close; Home friends versus university friends
    Description / Table of Contents: Career planning and the difficulties of shaping a lifeThe suspension of communicative reflexivity; Conclusion; 5: Autonomous reflexivity: the new spirit of social enterprise; Family lives: receiving 'mixed messages' and responding to them; Friendships and relationships: sources of diversion or deflection?; Careers: the new spirit of social enterprise; Conclusion: the future of autonomous reflexivity; 6: Meta-reflexives: critics of market and state; Family tensions and meta-reflexivity; Meta-reflexives and the challenge of friendship
    Description / Table of Contents: Meta-reflexives: careers, commitments and seizing opportunities
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1107020956 , 110760527X , 9781107020955 , 9781107605275
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 340 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 303.32
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    Keywords: Sozialisation ; Reflexivität ; Familie ; Selbstreflexion
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521874238 , 0521696933 , 9780521874236 , 9780521696937
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 343 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Making our Way through the World : Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility
    DDC: 305.5
    Keywords: Social mobility ; Reflection (Philosophy)
    Abstract: Examines 'internal conversations' and their influence on how people make their way through the world
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life; Incorporating reflexivity; Part I; 1 Reflexivity's biographies; 2 Reflexivity in action; 3 Reflexivity and working at social positioning; Part II; Introduction to Part II: how 'contexts' and 'concerns' shape internal conversations; 4 Communicative reflexives: working at staying put; 5 Autonomous reflexives: upward and outward bound; 6 Meta-reflexives: moving on; Part III; 7 Internal conversations and their outworks
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion: reflexivity's futureFrom early to high modernity; Nascent globalisation; Methodological appendix; The Coventry sample; Developing the internal conversation indicator (ICONI); Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Includes index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139087315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 370 Seiten)
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    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Agent (Philosophy) ; Self-knowledge, Theory of ; Social perception ; Interviews / Great Britain ; Individuum ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziologie ; Verhalten ; Großbritannien ; Soziologie ; Sozialstruktur ; Individuum ; Verhalten ; Soziale Wahrnehmung
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511488733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 323 pages)
    DDC: 128
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    Keywords: Soziale Identität
    Abstract: Humanity and the very notion of the human subject are under threat from postmodernist thinking which has declared not only the 'Death of God' but also the 'Death of Man'. This book is a revindication of the concept of humanity, rejecting contemporary social theory that seeks to diminish human properties and powers. Archer argues that being human depends on an interaction with the real world in which practice takes primacy over language in the emergence of human self-consciousness, thought, emotionality and personal identity - all of which are prior to, and more basic than, our acquisition of a social identity. This original and provocative new book from leading social theorist Margaret S. Archer builds on the themes explored in her previous books Culture and Agency (CUP 1988) and Realist Social Theory (CUP 1995). It will be required reading for academics and students of social theory, cultural theory, political theory, philosophy and theology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511153662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    DDC: 128
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    Keywords: Soziale Identität
    Abstract: A revindication of the concept of humanity and the primacy of practice over language.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 351 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 306
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    Abstract: Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency was first published in 1988, and proved a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described in Sociological Review as 'a timely and sophisticated treatment', the book showed that the 'problems' of culture and agency, on the one hand, and structure and agency, on the other, could be solved using the same analytical framework. In this revised edition of Culture and Agency, Margaret Archer contextualises her argument in 1990s cultural sociology and links it explicitly to her latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557675
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 354 pages)
    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Soziologische Theorie ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common theoretical practice. Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach not only rejects methodological individualism and holism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one, between elisionary theorising and emergentist theories based on a realist ontology of the social world. The morphogenetic approach is the sociological complement of transcendental realism, and together they provide a basis for non-conflationary theorizing which is also of direct utility to the practising social analyst.
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