Structure, Culture and Agency : Selected Papers of Margaret Archer (Paperback)

Foreword Introduction Realism’s Explanatory Framework 1. Thinking and Theorizing About Educational Systems 2. On Predicting the Behaviour of the Educational System 3. The Myth of Cultural Integration 4. The vexatious fact of society 5. Morphogenesis versus structuration 6. For structure: its reality, properties and powers 7. The private life of the social agent 8. The Ontological Status of subjectivity 9. Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life 10. A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative11. Self-Government & Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors 12. The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity 13. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transform Trajectory of the Morphogenetic Approach Interview with MaggieAnnotated Bibliography