The Logics of Social Structure

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos

页数:496

出版时间:2006-11-23

价格:USD 60.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521032698

丛书系列:Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

具体描述

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.

作者简介

一个非常聪明的希腊老头，一辈子爱智，专攻社会科学理论。早年哈佛社会学的博士。