The logics of social structure / Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos.
"In this book, the author proposes a new fundamental approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures tha...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Structural analysis in the social sciences ;
6. |
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "In this book, the author proposes a new fundamental approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make up society and the processes by which these structures are formed and are interlinked. A new conceptualisation of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on recent developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This new conceptualisation allows for the multiplicity of processes of structuration, which the author refers to as logics, some of which function at the individual or 'micro' level, others at the organisational or 'meso' level, and still others at the society-wide, or 'macro' level. The author terms this new conceptualisation a theory of heterarchy, and it is the first truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 481 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 051157097X 9780511570971 0511880847 9780511880841 0521032695 9780521032698 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511570971 |