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De poorten van Damascus.
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ISBN: 9029042540 Year: 1993 Publisher: Amsterdam : Meulenhoff,

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Persoon en planeet: de creatieve desintegratie van de industriële samenleving
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ISBN: 9029013028 Year: 1980 Publisher: Amsterdam Meulenhoff

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A treatise on social theory.
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ISBN: 0521249066 0521249597 0521249600 0521369835 0511004745 051158346X 9780521369831 9780521249591 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York Cambridge University Press

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This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species.


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Social Structure and Culture.
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ISBN: 0899253628 3110113104 0899253636 9780899253633 9783110113105 9780899253626 3110851024 9783110851021 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter, Inc.


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The causal power of social structures
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ISBN: 9781107402973 9780521194457 0521194458 9780511761720 1107402972 1107204755 0511852258 128291863X 9786612918636 0511931069 0511932405 0511927223 0511924682 0511761724 0511929722 9780511932403 9780511927225 9780511924682 9781107204751 9780511852251 6612918632 9780511931062 9780511929724 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over 100 years. This book offers a solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions.

Baudrillard: critical and fatal theory
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ISBN: 0415037751 Year: 1991 Publisher: London Routledge

Human institutions
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ISBN: 0585463840 9780585463841 1299784968 9781299784963 0742525589 9780742525580 0742525597 9780742525597 Year: 2003 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield

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In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution.

Les institutions traditionnelles dans le monde arabe
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ISBN: 2865376397 2811146679 Year: 1996 Volume: *40 Publisher: Paris Aix-en-Provence Karthala Iremam

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On a souvent présenté les institutions du monde arabe sous des lumières très contrastées. On a ainsi décrit les institutions traditionnelles comme immobiles, acceptant la modernité à contre-coeur, incapables de correspondre aux besoins actuels, et donc condamnées à disparaître tôt ou tard devant des institutions modernes, puissantes et dynamiques. Ou, à l’inverse, on a décrit les anciennes comme toujours vivantes et hostiles au développement, les modernes n’étant que des paravents pour la propagande extérieure, des créations d’autant plus fragiles qu’elles seraient menacées par les projets de restauration de la loi islamique. Des lors la problématique tournait autour de la stagnation, du retour en arrière ou de l’affrontement avec la modernité. L’analyse concrète des situations repérées dans l’histoire ou dans la vie contemporaine fait vite douter de visions trop hâtives et trop polémiques. Cet ouvrage entreprend de retourner aux faits, de reprendre l’exploration plutôt que la discussion. En ouvrant les cadres disciplinaires et en diversifiant les problématiques, on suggère que la vie, la survie, la mort ou la résurrection des institutions traditionnelles peuvent être déployées sur les plans historique, juridique, économique, sociologue, etc., avec des problématiques diverses, mais les plus adaptées possibles à chaque institution : recherche des déterminants historiques de la destinée de l’institution, comparaison avec les institutions concurrentes, explicitation de la cohérence voulue par les législateurs en dialogue/opposition avec les « usagers » de l’institution, mise en évidence de la stratégie des acteurs dans le contexte politique ou sociologique. Cette étude se présente donc comme une moisson d’explorations concrètes dans les institutions du monde arabe, du Golfe à l’Atlantique, de l’école coranique aux universités, du travailleur immigré aux confréries politiques... Si elle indique l’impossibilité d’un maintien à l’identique des institutions…

A treatise on social theory.
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ISBN: 0511004788 9780511004780 0521249600 0521249066 9780521249065 0521272513 9780521272513 0521249597 9780521249591 0521369835 9780521369831 9780511583469 0521588014 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York Cambridge University Press

The sociology of Norbert Elias
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ISBN: 0521827868 0521535093 1107147395 0511185839 0511185006 051131373X 0511488831 1280449446 051118767X 0511186746 9780521827867 9780521535090 9780511185007 9780511187674 9780511186745 9780511185830 9780511488832 9781280449444 9786610449446 6610449449 9781107147393 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Elias's work and then applies an Eliasian approach to key topics in contemporary sociology such as race, class, gender, religion, epistemology and nationalism. The editors have brought together a distinguished group of international sociologists and this book will not only change the course of Elias studies but be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.

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