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We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.
This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today's societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences on diverse platforms.
Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action.
A Reappraisal of Agency–Structure Theories to Understand Social Change
A Reappraisal of Agency–Structure Theories to Understand Social Change
Change is neither the meeting of the system and the external event, nor the march of history imposing its natural law on actors and social forms despite their resistance. It is at once project and rejection. The central problem is always to understand how the new is born from the old, how old men produce new societies.
Introduction
One of the driving forces of sociological research is closely related to the considerable tension that exists in social life between, on the one hand, what has been socially created and is still being used and reproduced and hence is still influencing or even constraining individual and collective behaviors, and on the other hand, what human agents do, transform ...
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