Structure, culture, and history
Subtitle: recent issues in social theory
By: edited by Sing C. Chew and J. David Knottnerus
Contributors: Chew, Sing C; Knottnerus, J. David
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Social structure; Culture; Social sciences -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Structural analysis : past, present and future. History of social structural analysis / Charles Crothers. Social structure : the future of a concept / Douglas V. Porpora; title: Culture and social structure. How are structures meaningful? : cultural sociology and theories of structure / Lynn Spillman. Agency, structure, and deritualization : a comparative investigation of extreme disruptions of social order / J. David Knottnerus; title: Global power, hegemonic decline, and cultural naratives / Albert J. Bergesen. Situating hybridity : the positional logics of a discourse / Jonathan Friedman; title: History and social structure. A structural theory of the five thousand year world system / Barry K. Gills and Andre Gunder Frank. Evolutionary pulsations in the world system / George Modelski and William R. Thompson. Paradigms bridged : institutional materialism and world-systemic evolution / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. Ecology in command / Sing C. Chew. Applications of elementary theory to structures of antiquity / Brent Simpson and David Willer; title: Micro and macro structures : interactions and organizations. Gender, institutions, and difference : the continuing importance of social structure in understanding gender inequality in organizations / Amy S. Wharton. Social structure and social exchange / Joseph Whitmeyer and Karen S. Cook. Social organizations across space and time : the policy processes, mesodomain analysis, and breadth of perspective / Peter M. Hall and Patrick J.W. McGinty. Acts, persons, positions, and institutions : legitimating multiple objects and compliance with authority / Henry A. Walker, Larry Rogers, and Morris Zelditch