This book offers the newest research developments and theory in the re-emerging field of structural analysis. The first section provides an overview and appraisal of the history and future of structural analysis. Subsequent sections focus on culture, historical processes, and macro-micro level interactions. The book's synthetic essays take a variety of forms dealing with structural levels of analysis, agency and structure, multidimensional views of social structure, and theory integration.
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| Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future |
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History of Social Structural Analysis |
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Social Structure: The Future of a Concept |
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43 | (20) |
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| Part II. Culture and Social Structure |
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How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure |
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Agency, Structure, and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order |
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85 | (22) |
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Global Power, Hegemonic Decline, and Cultural Narratives |
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Situating Hybridity: The Positional Logics of a Discourse |
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125 | (26) |
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| Part III. History and Social Structure |
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A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System |
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Evolutionary Pulsations in the World System |
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Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution |
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197 | (20) |
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Applications of Elementary Theory to Social Structures of Antiquity |
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| Part IV. Micro and Macro Structures: Interactions and Organizations |
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Gender, Institutions, and Difference: The Continuing Importance of Social Structure in Understanding Gender Inequality in Organizations |
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257 | (14) |
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Social Structure and Social Exchange |
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Social Organizations across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective |
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Acts, Persons, Positions, and Institutions: Legitimating Multiple Objects and Compliance with Authority |
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| Index |
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| Contributor Affiliations |
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Sing C. Chew is professor and chairperson at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. His most recent book is World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation 3000 B.C.-A.D. 2000. J. David Knottnerus is professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. His research interests focus on social psychology, social theory, social inequality, and the role ritualization plays in social interaction and structural processes.
