Conceptualising Constraint: Mouzelis, Archer and the Concept of Social Structure
نویسنده
چکیده
This paper outlines and evaluates recent contributions by Nicos Mouzelis and Margaret Archer to the structure–agency debate. Mouzelis offers an internal reconstruction of Giddens’s structuration theory; Archer an external alternative. I show that, although representing an advance on Giddens’s position, Mouzelis’s account fails because he relies on the former’s definition of structure as comprising rules and resources. I then examine Archer’s solution to the problem. I argue that her definition of activity-dependence makes her account of the relationship between agents and structures unclear. I outline an alternative account in terms of supervenience, and argue that it contains the minimum ontological claim necessary for a realist understanding of the structure–agent relationship.
منابع مشابه
Re-Conceptualising Public Health Interventions in Government: A Response to Recent Commentaries
متن کامل
Pär Engholm Realism , Social Theory , and Theoretical Practice
ion inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations’.
متن کاملThe structure of attraction in the family life cycle, emphasizing the concept of love among married women
Family, in its life cycle, is associated with changing roles, especially for couples. Compatibility with these changes has a significant effect on the attractive relationships between couples. The present paper aimed to investigate the gravity structure (love-based relationships) in the family life cycle and the effect of contextual variables (such as employment, education level, social capital...
متن کاملگفتاری درباره مسائل اجتماعی استراتژی ملی
The discussion develops under four subtitles: society and sotial problems, strategy and its dimensions, our society and its main social problems, and social probems of our National Strategy. In part one, two distinct trends in sociological analysis of society are identified, those which emphasize structure and function and those which emphasize system and system properties. Earlier generatio...
متن کاملExplanation the Functional principals of Spatial Governance in trans structure framework methodology
The emergence of decentralization approach and transfer some political authority to non-state actors has provided new actions for the management of geographical space under the name of spatial governance. The roots of the emergence of the concept of spatial governance return to the economic-political changing in the 1980s. The emergence of a decentralization approach and the transfer powers fro...
متن کامل