{"product_id":"culture-and-agency-the-place-of-culture-in-social-theory-paperback-9780521564410","title":"Culture and Agency; The Place of Culture in Social Theory (Paperback) 9780521564410","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCulture and Agency\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Place of Culture in Social Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevised edition of 1988 book, highly influential in debates about role of culture in social theory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMargaret S. Archer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521564410, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 26 September 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A timely and sophisticated treatment.' Sociological Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMargaret 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).\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The myth of cultural integration\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rejecting Cultural Conflation: 2. 'Downwards conflation':  on keys, codes and cohesion\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Upwards conflation': the duality of culture\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Central conflation: the duality of culture\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Reconceuptualizing Cultural Dynamics: 5. Addressing the Cultural System\u003cbr\u003e 6. Contradictions and complementarities in the cultural system\u003cbr\u003e 7. Socio-Cultural interaction\u003cbr\u003e 8. Elaboration of the Cultural System\u003cbr\u003e 9. Toeards theoretical unification:  structure, culture and morphogenesis\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'Social Integration and System Integration'\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20theory%20%5BJHBA%5D%22\"\u003eJHBA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002127143192,"sku":"9780521564410","price":40.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521564410i_69c7b96c-2f8b-4698-967a-0e3ce1c1a862.jpg?v=1691369820","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/culture-and-agency-the-place-of-culture-in-social-theory-paperback-9780521564410","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}