TY - BOOK ID - 19085668 TI - The logics of social structure PY - 1993 VL - 6 SN - 9780521032698 0521417791 0521032695 9780521417792 9780511570971 051157097X 0511880847 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social structure. KW - Structure sociale KW - Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - Organization, Social KW - Social organization KW - Anthropology KW - Social institutions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19085668 AB - In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of 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 conceptualization of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This conceptualization 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 at the organizational or 'meso' level, and still others at the society-wide, or 'macro' level. The author terms this conceptualization a theory of heterarchy and it is a truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration. ER -