Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory

by Margaret Scotford Archer and Margaret S. Archer

Book Overview

This is a revised edition of Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described as a timely and sophisticated treatment, the book showed that the problems of culture and agency and structure and agency could be solved using the same analytical framework. The revised edition contextualizes the argument in 1990s sociology and links it to Professor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521564417
• ISBN13: 9780521564410
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Tools for understanding social change

Culture and Agency is a very useful book to understand social change. The Author provides several analitical tools to examine the relation between systems of beliefs and values and the stuctural opportunities individuals have to support or contest them. In doing so, she opens new ways to think sociological problems like the change in the role of woman in society, or the reinterpretations of culture proposed by new social movements, in spite of the fact that the book maintains itself in a theoretical level, without adressing substantive issues. I am a Ph.D. student, and the book was extremely helpful to iluminate my object of research, the women's movement.