Culture and Agency The Place of Culture in Social Theory [Paperback]

Revised edition of 1988 book, highly influential in debates about role of culture in social theory.This revised edition of Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency (1988), a seminal contribution to social theory, contextualizes the original book's argument in 1990s sociology and links it to her latest work Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (CUP, 1995).This revised edition of Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency (1988), a seminal contribution to social theory, contextualizes the original book's argument in 1990s sociology and links it to her latest work Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (CUP, 1995).This is a revised edition of Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described as a timely and sophisticated treatment , the book showed that the problems of culture and agency and structure and agency could be solved using the same analytical framework. The revised edition contextualizes the argument in 1990s sociology and links it to Professor Archer's latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (CUP, 1995).1. The myth of cultural integration; Part I. Rejecting Cultural Conflation: 2. 'Downwards conflation': on keys, codes and cohesion; 3. 'Upwards conflation': the duality of culture; 4. 'Central conflation: the duality of culture; Part II. Reconceuptualizing Cultural Dynamics: 5. Addressing the Cultural System; 6. Contradictions and complementarities in the cultural system; 7. Socio-Cultural interaction; 8. Elaboration of the Cultural System; 9. Toeards theoretical unification: structure, culture and morphogenesis; 10. 'Social Integration and System Integration''A timely and sophisticated treatment.' Sociological Review