Structure, Culture and Agency

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of structure and agency, Archer’s work has constituted a decade-long engagement with this perennial issue of social thought. However, in spite of the deep interconnections that unify her body of work, it is rarely treated as a coherent whole. This is doubtless in part due to the unforgiving rigour of her arguments and prose, but also a byproduct of sociology’s ongoing compartmentalisation

Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Pragmatism · Rigour · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Social Capital and Networks · Anthropology · Cultural · Cultural Policy · Culture · Essays · General · Great britain · Organization · Political science · Popular Culture · Public policy · Realism · Réalisme · Social Science · Social structure · Structure sociale