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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      June 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511570971
      9780521417792
      9780521032698
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570971
      Dimensions:
      (204 x 159 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.89kg, 494 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 496 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Organisational Sociology, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (6)
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Organisational Sociology, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (6)
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    In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make up society and the processes by which these structures are formed and are interlinked. A conceptualization of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This conceptualization allows for the multiplicity of processes of structuration, which the author refers to as logics, some of which function at the individual or 'micro' level, others at the organizational or 'meso' level, and still others at the society-wide, or 'macro' level. The author terms this conceptualization a theory of heterarchy and it is a truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration.

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    ‘Kontopoulos provides a wonderfully thorough and lucid platform from which to understand and interpret the many complex new developments in social theory.’

    Harrison White - Columbia University

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