Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act, and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that can hide more than it reveals. Cutting through the often off-putting writing styles of social theoris...
Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act, and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that can hide more than it reveals. Cutting through the often off-putting writing styles of social theorists, this book demonstrates exactly what social theory is about, clearly presenting the key themes of major social theory from the classical thinkers onwards. Areas covered include Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, feminism and structuration theories. Wide-ranging in scope and coverage, the book is concise in presentation and free from jargon. Showing why social theory matters, and why it is of far-reaching social and political importance, the book is ideal for students across the social sciences seeking a clear, crisp mapping of a complex but very rewarding area.
Previous social theories are seen by structurationists as privileging one of these dimensions over the other.
Marxism and functionalist theory overly focuses on how social systems reproduce themselves, regarding
individual actors as mere ‘cultural dopes’ who carry out actions and interactions which the social system requires them to do. These sorts of theories are seen as putting too much stress on social reproduction, at the expense of social transformation. They do so because they start with unsatisfactory concepts of ‘society’ and ‘social structure’, and then deduce
how these allegedly dictate what individuals do. On the other hand, various kinds of micro-sociologies, including Weberian action theory, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, and Rational Choice Theory are seen as ... (查看原文)
Structuration theory therefore seeks to overcome what it sees as the failings of earlier social theory, avoiding both its ‘objectivist’ and ‘subjectivist’ extremes, seeking to overcome these by forging a new terminology to describe how people both create and are created by social order, and how the interacting activities of individuals leads to both social reproduction and transformation. The very word ‘structuration’ attempts to indicate that the things conventionally referred to by the words (social) ‘structure’ and (individual) ‘action’ are not separate entities, but in fact elements of one single process, the ‘constitution of society’, as Giddens (1984) puts it. (查看原文)
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