Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos - The Logics of Social Structure

In this book, the author proposes a fundamental new approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He critiques the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make up society and the processes by which these structures are formed and are interlinked.

A new conceptualizati on of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on recent developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This new conceptualizati on allows for the multiplicity of processes of structuration, which the author refers to as logics, some of which function at the individual or "micro" level, others of which function at the organizational or "meso" level, and still others of which function at the society-wide, or "macro" level. The author terms this new conceptualizati on a theory of heterarchy, and it is the first truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration.

Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos
Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0521032695 | 496 p | PDF | 12,5 MB

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