Structure and Agency

Part 1: Modernity, Sociology and the Structure/Agency Debate Seminal Sources: Marx, Weber and Durkheim On Class - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Definitions of Sociology and Social - Max Weber The Conflict between Methodology and Rationalisation in the Work of Max Weber - Lars Udehn From "Suicide: A study in sociology - Emile Durkheim American Structural-Functionalism Parson's Action-System Requisite Model and Weber's Elective Affinity: A convergence of convenience - Javier Trevino Overcoming Structure and Agency: Talcott Parsons, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the theory of social action - Anthony King Structure and Anomie - Robert K. Merton The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology - Denis H. Wrong Symbolic Interactionism From "Mind, Mind Self and Society: From the standpoint of a social behaviourist" - George Mead Goffman on Organizations - Peter K. Manning The Sociology of Self - Peter L. Callero Alfred Schutz and the 'Objectifying Attitude' - Austin Harrington The Two Sociologies - Alan Dawe Structuralism, Poststructuralism and the Cultural Turn Desire and Drive in Researcher Subjectivity: The broken mirror of Lacan - Tony Brown The Power of the Imaginary in Disciplinary Processes - John Roberts Agency: The internal split of structure - Yong Wang Born-Again Functionalism: a reconsideration of Althusser's structuralism - Richard P. Appelbaum Structures, Strategies and the Habitus - Pierre Bourdieu Some Implications of Pierre Bourdieu's Work for the Theory of Social Self Organizations - Christian Fuchs Epistemology and Method: Althusser, Foucault, Derrida - P.L. Brown Agency and Change: Re-evaluating Foucault's legacy - Raymond Caldwell Bourdieu, Critic of Foucault: The case of rmpirical social science against double-game-philosophy - Staf Callwaert Part 2: Critical Theory; Structuration Theory; Critical Realism; and Indentity Theory Critical Theory: Adorno, Habermas, Marcuse Reading Bourdieu with Adorno: The limits of critical theory and reflexive sociology - Nedim Karakayali Pragmatism and Critical Theory - Larry Ray The self-empowered subject: Habermas, Foucault and hermeneutic reflexivity - Hans Herbert Kogler Structuration Theory: The Dualism/Duality Debate From "The Constitution of Society: Outline of the theory of structuration" - Anthony Giddens A Theory of Structure: Duality, agency and transformation - William H. Sewell Institutional Responsibility and Hidden Meanings - Rick A. M. Iedema Cultural Consumption Analysis: Beyond structure and agency - Volker Kirchberg Social and System Integration: Lockwood, Habermas, Giddens - Nicos Mouzelis Radically Reconstituting the Subject: Social theory and human nature - Mike H. O'Donnell Critical Realism Morphogenesis versus Structuration: On combining structure and action - Margaret S. Archer The Archers; a Tale of Folk (Final Episode?) - Frederic Vandenberghe Challenging Dualism: Public professionalism in 'troubled' times - Denis Gleeson and David Knight Refusing the Realism-Structuration Divide - Rob Stones Structure, Self, Agency and Identity Identity as an analysis problem: who's who in 'pro ana' websites - Martin Hammersley and Peggy Treseder What is Identity? - Stuart Hall Performativity Identified - Alecia Youngblood Jackson Narrating Human Actions: The subjective experience of agency, structure, communion and serendipity - Amia Leiblich and Tammar B. Zilber Contingency, contestation and hegemony: The possibility of a non-essentialist politics of the left - Eduard Grebe Part 3: Structure/Agency Theories Applied Class Structure, agency and Marx's analysis of the labour process - Stephen Pratten With a little class: A critique of identity politics - Martha E. Gimenez Violence and Revolutionary Subjectivity: Marx to Zizek - Christopher J. Finlay The Promising Future of Class Analysis: A response to recent critiques - John H. Goldthorpe and Gordon Marshall Organizations and Employment Implications of Self-Reference: Niklas Luhmann's autopoiesis and organization theory - Tor Hernes and Tore Bakken The New Structuralism in Organizational Theory - Michael Lounsbury and Marc Ventresca Gender Theorising Patriarchy - Sylvia Walby Structure and Agency in Socialist-Feminist Thought - Amy S. Wharton Agency, Anticipation and Determinacy in Feminist Theory - Lois McNay Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the concept - R. W. Connell and James Messersmidt 'Race', Ethnicity and Agency Women, Men and Class Revisited: An assessment of the utility of a combined schema in the context of minority Ethnic educational achievement in Britain - Catherine Rothon The Social Geographies of White Masculitinites - Stephen D. Farough The Life Course Identity and Agency in Emerging Adulthood: Two developmental routes in the individuation process - Seth J. Schwartz, James E. Cote and Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Women Growing Older: Agency, ethnicity and culture - Sharon Wray Disability Agency, Structure, and the Transition to Disability: A case study with implications for life history research - Ronald J. Berger Love's Labour Lost? Feminism, the disabled people's movement and an ethic of care - Bill Hughes, Linda McKie, Debra Hopkins and Nick Watson The Body: Embodiment The Undersocialised Conception of the Embodied Agent In Modern Sociology - Chris Shilling 'Sex' and the Problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's theory of sex/gender - Samuel A. Chambers Part 4: Network Theory, Globalisation Theory, Hegemony Networks The Network Society: From knowledge to policy - Manuel Castells Reflexivity as Non-linearity - Scott Lash Internet and self-regulation in China: The cultural logic of controlled commodification - Ian Weber and Lu Jia Globalisation, Social Movements Simmel to Rokkan and Beyond: Towards a network theory of (new) social movements - Mario Diani The Gordian Knot of Agency-Structure in International Relations: A neo-Gramscian perspective - Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton Culture, Identity and Hegemony: The body in a global age - Lauren Langman Human Well-Being and Social Structures: Relating the universal and the local - Ian Gough The Crisis of Identity in High Modernity - Mervyn F. Bendle Part 5: Conclusion/Continuation Conclusion/Continuation The Paradox of the Two Sociologies: Hobbes, Latour and the constitution of modern social theory - Robert van Krieken Alexander and the Cultural Refounding of American Sociology - Fuyuki Kurasawa 'Agency' as a Red Herring in Social Theory - Steven Loyal and Barry Barnes Beyond Reform: Agency after theory - John Schlueter From Factors to Actors: Computational sociology and agent-based modeling - Michael W. Macey and Robert Willer What is Agency? - Mustafa Emirbayer and Ann Mische