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The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual. The contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which tha.

Social structure. --- Agent (Philosophy) --- Agency (Philosophy) --- Agents --- Person (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Structure sociale. --- Personne (philosophie) --- Middle class families --- Domestic space. --- Property --- Innenarchitektur. --- Mittelstand. --- History --- Geschichte 1850-1910. --- Great Britain --- England. --- Social conditions --- Anthony Giddens. --- Jurgen Habermas. --- Karl Marx. --- Michel Foucault. --- Pierre Bourdieu. --- contemporary social theory. --- human agents. --- social structure. --- sociological thought. --- structuration theory. --- structure-agency dualisms.