Against Structure
A Critique of Morphogenetic Social Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3676674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony King (0000-0002-8131-396X, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-227 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00170 |
| OpenAlex | W2106540034 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article criticises the ontology of Margaret Archer's morphogenetic social theory, arguing that the concept of autonomous social structure on which she bases this social theory is contradictory. Against the ontological contradictions of Archer's work, the article tries to re-habilitate the interpretive tradition which Archer dismisses, showing that only this tradition provides a logically coherent and methodologically useful social ontology, which consists only of individuals and their social relations
Epistemology · Ontology · Social ontology · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing
After Adorno
Social structures, social change and the metric/nonmetric distinction
Morphogenetic Régulation in action
Theorizing Contemporary Control
Two Types of Agency, But Are They Not Related
Structure
A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative
Agency
The reflexive imperative versus habits and habitus
Can Structuration and Morphogenesis Be Compatible
Debating Humanity
The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
Social Emergence
The agency-structure antinomy as social form
Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu
The Habitus and the Critique of the Present
Immanent Idealism
Using agential morphogenesis to track professional identity development in higher education
Path Dependence, Realism and the NHS
A Strategic-Relational Account of Language Use, Discourse, and Reason
Use of Mixed Methods in a Study of Residence and Contact Disputes between Divorced and Separated Parents
Methodological Individualism, Rational Choice and Development Economics
Ontogenesis Versus Morphogenesis Towards an Anti-realist Model of the Constitution of Society
Structure and Agency Again, and Much More
The Social Relations of Organisational Activity and the New Local Governance in the UK
Power Relations in Urban Decision-making
Beyond Adherence
Can Social Systems be Autopoietic? Bhaskar's and Giddens’ Social Theories
Neither individualism nor anti‐individualism
Why I am not an Individualist
Elder-Vass on the Causal Power of Social Structures
Reorienting critical realism
When Unveiling the Epistemic Fallacy Ends with Committing the Ontological Fallacy. On the Contribution of Critical Realism to the Social Scientific Explanatory Practice
Morphogenetic theory and the constructivist institutionalist challenge
Materially social’ critical realism
Where Constructionism and Critical Realism Converge
Critical realist encounters
On Elder‐Vass
How Not to Structure a Social Theory
Sociologizing metaphysics and mind
A Method for Social Ontology
Faculty agency in striving university contexts
Where do the limits of experience lie? Abandoning the dualism of objectivity and subjectivity
Elder‐Vass's Move and Giddens's Call
The morphogenetic approach and immanent causality
For Emergence
Knowing Social Reality
Emergence and Reduction
Refining Archer’s account of Agency and organization
The Potential of Path Dependence in Political Studies
Making Hay with Actualism? The Need for a Realist Concept of Structure
Bourdieu in hyperspace
Bataille's boys
Agent-Based Models and Individualism
Hermeneutic Institutionalism
Can Social Systems Be Autopoietic? Assessing Luhmann's Social Theory
Some Reflections on Structure and Agency in Migration Theory
Ethnic entrepreneurship and the question of agency
A Tale of Two Ontologies
On the Limits of a Realist Conception of Knowledge
Relational agency
Defining personal reflexivity
Refusing the Realism-Structuration Divide
For 'Central Conflation
Artificial Societies
A Dependent Structure of Interdependence
Making Time for Change
Routine, Reflexivity, and Realism
Relational Thinking
The explanation of social behaviour
Social being
Philosophy and the Idea of Freedom
Method in Social Science
Ökologische Kommunikation
Explorations in Social Change.
Distinction
Structure of Social Action
Philosophical Foundations of the Three Sociologies (Rle Social Theory)
Readings in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Social Origins of Educational Systems
Distinction
‘Social integration and System integration’
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Realist Social Theory
The Explanation of Social Behaviour
The Possibility of Naturalism
The Explanation of Social Behavior
The Class Structure of the Advanced Societies
The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1, Reason and the Rationalization of Society
Advances in Social Theory and Methodology
Method in Social Science
Sociological Theory
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
A Realist Theory of Science
Culture and agency
The constitution of society
Morphogenesis versus Structuration
Morphogenesis versus structuration
Central Problems in Social Theory
Structure, Interaction and Social Theory
Limits of Steering
Social Integration and System Integration
On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology
Anthony Giddens
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,69 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |