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Being Human: The Problem of Agency
- M. Archer
- Philosophy
- 28 December 2000
Part I. The Impoverishment of Humanity: 1. Resisting the dissolution of humanity 2. Modernity's man 3. Society's Being: humanity as the gift of society Part II. The Emergence of Self Consciousness:…
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
- M. Archer
- Psychology
- 2003
Introduction: how does structure influence agency? Part I. Solitude and Society: 1. The private life of the social subject 2. From introspection to internal conversation: an unfinished journey in…
Making our Way through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility
- M. Archer
- Psychology
- 2007
Introduction. Reflexivity: the unacknowledged condition of social life Part I: 1. Reflexivity's biographies 2. Reflexivity in action 3. Reflexivity and working at social positioning Part II:…
Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory
- M. Archer
- Sociology
- 13 October 1996
People are inescapably shaped by the culture in which they live, while culture itself is made and remade by people. Human beings in their daily lives feel a genuine freedom of thought and belief, yet…
The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
- M. Archer
- Sociology
- 21 May 2012
Introduction 1. A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative 2. The reflexive imperative versus habits and habitus 3. Re-conceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity' 4.…
Making our Way through the World by Margaret S. Archer
- M. Archer
- History
- 1 June 2007
Social origins of educational systems
- M. Archer
- Education
- 1979
Margaret Archer's Social Origins of Educational Systems (SAGE, 1979) has been hailed as a landmark in the sociology of education. It provides a major historical and structural comparison of state…
Critical Realism : Essential Readings
- M. Archer, R. Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, T. Lawson, A. Norrie
- Philosophy, Art
- 15 October 1998
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical…
Morphogenesis versus structuration: on combining structure and action. 1982.
- M. Archer
- SociologyThe British journal of sociology
- 1 December 1982
The fundamental problem of linking human agency and social structure stalks through the history of sociological theory. Basically it concerns how to develop an adequate theoretical account which…
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