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Offers the newest research developments and theory in the re-emerging field of structural analysis. The first section provides an overview and appraisal of the history and future of structural analysis. Subsequent sections focus on culture, historical processes, and macro-micro level interactions. The book's synthetic essays take a variety of forms dealing with structural levels of analysis, agency and structure, multidimensional views of social structure, and theory integration.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 3 History of Social Structural Analysis
Chapter 4 Social Structure: The Future of a Concept
Part 5 Part II. Culture and Social Structure
Chapter 6 How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure
Chapter 7 Agency, Structure and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order
Chapter 8 Global Power, Hegemonic Decline, and Cultural Narratives
Chapter 9 Situating Hybridity: The Positional Logics of a Discourse
Part 10 Part III. History and Social Structure
Chapter 11 A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System
Chapter 12 Evolutionary Pulsations in the World System
Chapter 13 Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution
Chapter 14 Ecology in Command
Chapter 15 Applications of Elementary Theory to Structures of Antiquity
Part 16 Part IV. Micro and Macro Structures: Interactions and Organizations
Chapter 17 Gender, Institutions and Difference: The Continuing Importance of Social Structure in Understanding Gender Inequality in Organizations
Chapter 18 Social Structure and Social Exchange
Chapter 19 Social Organizations across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective
Chapter 20 Acts, Persons, Positions, and Institutions: Legitimating Multiple Objects and Compliance with Authority
Chapter 21 Index

Product details

Published 02 Oct 2002
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 368
ISBN 9781461715320
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sing C. Chew

Sing C. Chew is professor emeritus at Humboldt Sta…

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David J. Knottnerus

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Albert Bergesen

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Karen D. Cook

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Barry K. Gills

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Peter M. Hall

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Thomas D. Hall

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George Modelski

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Larry Rogers

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Brent Simpson

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Lynn Spillman

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Henry Walker

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Amy S. Wharton

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David Willer

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Morris Zelditch

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