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The tension between (social) order and change, or, alternatively formulated, between structure and agency, has a long … between structure and agency may be resolved conceptually. Accounts seem to emphasize either structure or agency, and fail to … shrift in previous eras (Davis 2003), but at the same time argue that one should not negate the reality of social structure …
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Economists seldom make explicit use of functional explanation, although they sometimes use it implicitly. Functional theorizing has lost favour among social scientists in recent years, and few are now willing to adopt functional language. This paper argues that, despite some drawbacks, explicit...
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The tension between (social) order and change, or, alternatively formulated, between structure and agency, has a long … between structure and agency may be resolved conceptually. Accounts seem to emphasize either structure or agency, and fail to … shrift in previous eras (Davis 2003), but at the same time argue that one should not negate the reality of social structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731355
Drawing upon qualitative data gathered through fieldwork in three bail hostels, this paper outlines the role of substance use (illegal drugs, alcohol, prescribed medication and food) in the lives of women awaiting trial. Their use of substance is explored within the context of the multiple and...
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habitus through certain types of focus groups. An account of the relationship between structure, individual and collective … agency is developed to provide a grounding for the methodological argument. The article suggests, on the basis of this …
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Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely … examination of structure, not exclusively place blame on agency failures. (98 words) … did not appear earlier because the economic structure was different then, then again attention must return to an …
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problems in social theory: (i) the epistemological significance of structural principles vis-a-vis agency; and (ii) the …
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the rescue by allowing agency to be read-off from subcultural assemblages rather than explored in practice. It also …
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Canada, like many other developed countries, has implemented a temporary foreign workers' programme, ostensibly to address temporary labour shortages within its domestic labour market. However, there is growing evidence of the programme being used to meet longer-term labour demands, with...
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of expenditures is not so much the migration experience itself, as the socio-economic structure of sending communities …
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