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Realist Social Theory - The Morphogenetic Approach (Hardcover, New)
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Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture
and agency, Margaret Archer develops here 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 practice - whether in
upwards conflation (by the aggregation of individual acts)
downwards conflation (through the structural orchestration of
agents), or, more recently, in central conflation which holds the
two to be mutually constitutive and thus precludes any examination
of their interplay by eliding them. Realist social theory: the
morphogenetic approach thus not only rejects methodological
individualism and collectivism, but argues that the debate between
them has been replaced by a new one between elisionary theorizing
(such as Giddens' structuration theory) and the 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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