The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in
recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed
that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social
structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with
the micro, society and the individual. The contributors to this
book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the
concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting
'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of
the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to
understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from,
and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real
situations. This timely collection is not intended as an
even-handed review of the debate, but as a deliberately polemical
intervention which aims to highlight some of the ways in which its
central terms have been misconceived. -- .
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