The Logics of Social Structure
( Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences )
Publication series ：Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
Author： Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 1993
E-ISBN: 9780511880841
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521417792
Subject： C912 Social structures and relationships
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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The Logics of Social Structure
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In this book, the author proposes an interesting 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 conceptualization of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This conceptualization 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 organizational or 'meso' level, and still others at the society-wide, or 'macro' level. The author terms this conceptualization a theory of heterarchy and it is a truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration.
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