Advances in Social Theory and Methodology

Knorr-Cetina, K

Advances in Social Theory and Methodology Towards an Integration of Micro and Macro-Sociologies - New York Routledge 2017 - 325p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Micro-Foundations of Social Knowledge .....49 NOtes on the Integration of Micro-and Macro- Levels of Anlaysis .......51 Micro- Translation as a Theory - Building strategy .81 Intermediate steps between micro-and macro- integration : The case of Screening for inherited Disorders ......109 2. Action and structure : The cognitive organization of Symbolic Practice ........137 Philosophical Aspects of the Micro-Macro Problem .....139 Agency, Institution and Time-Space analysis .....161 Social Ritual and Relative truth in Natural Language ........175 3. Toward a Reconstruction of Systems perspectives ........203 Transformational Theory and the internal environment of Action systems ......205 Communication about law in interactions systems .....234 4. The production of societal macro-structure : Aspects of a Political Economy of Practice Towards a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism .........259 Unscrewing the big leviathan: How actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so ........277 Men and machines ........304

9781138912960 2900

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