Social Structure

includes index and biblioraphy

1. What is Social Structure .........1 Conceptualizing social Structure ..............7 Structure before social Structure .............7 Spencer and the Social Organism .........11 Durkheim: Relationships and representations .............13 3. Institutional Structure .............19 The cultural Backgrou nd ..........21 The virtual order of Social institutions..........22 Institutions rediscovered ...............27 Social positions and roles .........29 Conformity, Power and contradictions .........31 The case of Medical Practice.......36 The case of Kinship and marriage .......38 Transnational and post-colonial Challenges ...........40 4. Relational Structure ...........43 Relational Structure in Anthropology ............44 Social structure as relational forms ...........48 Social structures as social networks ..........57 The case of urban conflicts and class conflicts ...........61 The case of World systems ........63 5. Levels of Structure .........66 Base and Superstructure .............67 Systems and subsystems ...............75 Habermas: A partial Synthesis .......80 Field and the Organization of Space .............82 6. Embodied structure ............89 Sociology and the body ...........90 Rules, Procedures and Structure ................93 Bodies, Powers and Structure .............98 Habitus, Fields and Structure ...........100