Culture and Agency : The Place of Culture in Social Theory by Margaret Scotford Archer (1990, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521387361

ISBN-139780521387361

eBay Product ID (ePID)680564

Product Key Features

Number of Pages371 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCulture and Agency : the Place of Culture in Social Theory

Publication Year1990

SubjectSociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

TypeTextbook

AuthorMargaret Scotford Archer

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306

SynopsisPeople are inescapably shaped by the culture in which they live, while culture itself is made and remade by people. Human beings in their daily lives feel a genuine freedom of thought and belief, yet this is unavoidably constrained by cultural limitations--such as those imposed by the language spoken, the knowledge developed and the information available at any time. In this book, Margaret Archer provides an analysis of the nature and stringency of cultural constraints, and the conditions and degrees of cultural freedom, and offers a radical new explanation of the tension between them. She suggests that the "problem of culture and agency" directly parallels the "problem of structure and agency," and that both problems can be solved by using the same analytical framework. She therefore paves the way toward the theoretical unification of the structural and cultural fields.