Between Scylla and Charybdis
Margaret Archer’s social realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6169399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nuno Oliveira (0000-0002-7904-4385, Archer (Norway), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Issue | 65 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Problemas e Práticas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0873-6529 • E-ISSN: 2182-7907 |
| Publisher | Editora Mundos Sociais (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.7458/spp2011657779 |
| OpenAlex | W2462251172 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article aims to compare Archer’s theoretical proposals with those of Giddens or, more precisely, to read Giddens through Archer and vice versa, in a deliberate dialogical attempt that never reaches — and never tries to reach — a synthesis. It is intended, through this comparison, to cast light on certain logical articulations between the two paradigms that may delineate the strengths and weaknesses of social realism as conceived by Archer. For this reason, we put forward three vectors of analysis, through which to set the two approaches against each other: the ontological, systemic and actionalist axes. We conclude by suggesting that certain key proposals in the theory of structuration cannot be neglected, on pain of a theory of morphogenesis falling into a spurious internalism that runs the risk of slipping towards a reductive vision of the articulation between personal emerging capacities and structural emerging properties
Articulation (sociology · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Internalism and externalism · Political science · Realism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
The explanation of social behaviour
The class structure of the advanced societies.
Social Origins of Educational Systems
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Social Emergence
Making our Way through the World
Realism and Social Science
The Possibility of Naturalism
Culture and agency
Morphogenesis versus Structuration
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |