Author: Margaret S. Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: approach, morphogenetic, theory, social, realist
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1995-10-27
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0521484421
ISBN-13: 9780521484428

Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, heralded in Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), and applies it to the problem of structure and agency, that is, how we both shape society and are shaped by it. Her aim is to capture the interplay between these two processes rather than collapse them into one, as has been the case with the traditional competing individualist and collectivist methodologies. The morphogenetic approach offers a new understanding of social change and poses a direct challenge to Giddens’ structuration theory.

Author: Margaret S. Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: english, agency, problem, human
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-01-29
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521795648
ISBN-13: 9780521795647

The human subject is under threat from postmodernist thinking that has declared the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man." This book is a revindication of the concept of humanity, rejecting contemporary social theory that seeks to diminish human properties and powers. Archer argues that being human depends on an interaction with the real world in which practice takes primacy over language in the emergence of human self-consciousness, thought, emotionality and personal identity--all of which are prior to, and more basic than, our acquisition of a social identity.

Authors:Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, Tony La
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, interventions, essential, readings
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0415196329
ISBN-13: 9780415196321

Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has emerged as one of the most powerful new directions in the philosophy of science and social science, offering a real alternative to both positivism and postmodernism. This reader makes accessible in one volume key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism, including: the transcendental realist philosophy of science elaborated in A Realist Theory of Science; Bhaskar’s critical naturalist philosophy of social science; the theory of explanatory critique, which is centra

Authors:Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpo
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, interventions, god, transcendence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-06-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415336171
ISBN-13: 9780415336178

This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief, demonstrating that the three pillars of Critical Realism -- ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality -- can be applied to religion. The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.

Authors:Mary D. Archer, Mary D. Archer, Arthur J. Nozik,
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: conversion, vol, photon, solar, photoelectrochemical, systems, nanostructured
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $235.00
ISBN-10: 1860942555
ISBN-13: 9781860942556

In this book, expert authors describe advanced solar photon conversion approaches that promise highly efficient photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells with sophisticated architectures on the one hand, and plastic photovoltaic coatings that are inexpensive enough to be disposable on the other. Their leitmotifs include light-induced exciton generation, junction architectures that lead to efficient exciton dissociation, and charge collection by percolation through mesoscale phases. Photocatalysis is closely related to photoelectrochemistry, and the fundamentals of both disciplines are covere

Authors:Margaret Diane LeCompte, Jean Schensul, Margaret Wee
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: toolkit, vol, ethnographer, partnerships, roles, research, researcher
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1999-08-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0761989730
ISBN-13: 9780761989738

Book six of the Ethnographer’s Toolkit series discusses the special requirements that doing ethnographic research imposes on its practitioners. The authors first describe how the work of ethnographers is inextricably tied to type of person the ethnographer is, the particular social and cultural context of the research site, and the tasks and responsibilities that ethnographers assume in the field. The book then examines how ethnographers assemble research teams, establish partnerships with individuals and institutions in the field, and work collaboratively with a wide range of people and

Authors:Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson, Margaret Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: greece, ancient, feminine, sacred
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-05-11
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415126630
ISBN-13: 9780415126632

In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between public and private space; and both men and women negotiated gendered identities through their performance of ritual. This volume is a lively and colorful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women’s importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles a