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