Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
List of Figures
1 The Morphogenetic Approach and Its Trajectory: A First-Person Account by the Author
	At the Start
		Resisting the Three Forms of Conflation
		Reflexivity as Mediating Social Forms
Part I Culture
	2 When Culture Is Marginalized
		Article Abstract
		Structure in Relation to Culture
	3 Critical Realists Do Debate Culture
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Archer
		Elder-Vass
		Archer
		Elder-Vass
		Archer
		Elder-Vass
		Archer
		Archer
			Postscript: Analysing Culture and Its Relations to SAC
	4 Should Concepts of Culture Give More Prominence to Critical Discourse Analysis?
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Collaboration at the Micro, Meso and Macro Levels
			The Micro Level
			The Meso or Organizational Level
			The Macro Level (Institutional Interrelations)
				Cultural Conditioning (CS)
				Socio-Cultural (S-C) Interaction
				Cultural Elaboration
		Conclusion
			Structure and Agency
			Agency
Part II Structure
	5 Misrepresenting SAC as Dualism
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Kemp’s Denial of Any Separation between Subject and Object
		The Parody of ‘Realist Dualism’
			The Structured Context Anathematized
			Interests Don’t Stand Alone
			Agential Concerns and Their Attempts to Forge a Modus Vivendi
			How Concerns Evade Constraints – at a Price
			Contextual Continuity Can Trump Enablements to Social Mobility
		Conclusion
	6 The Majority of Agents Are the Dead: Implications for Central Conflation
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		The Dismissal of Temporality by Piiroinen
		Why History Will Not Go Away: The Patrimony of the Dead
			Objective Interests
			Opportunity Costs
			Situational Logic of Action
		Agents’ Personal Powers: Their Mediatory Implications
		Presentism and Sociological Populism
	7 Can Structuration and Morphogenesis Be Compatible?
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Rob Stones’s Commentary and Arguments for Compatibility
			Temporality
			Structural Conditioning – Inside or Outside the Agent
		Six Problematics for Practical Social Analysis
			(1) Investigating the Causal Process over Time in Terms of an Unfolding Process of Interaction between Structure and Agency
			(2) Investigating the Distribution of Structural Options Available to Agents at Any One Time
			(3) Investigating the Durability of Particular Structures Whether Defined as SEPs (Structural Emergent Properties) (as in Archer’s work), as ‘Virtual’ Structures (as in Giddens’s Work) or as a Combination of Both
			(4) Investigating the Necessary Internal Relations of Structures (SEPs), such as Landlord–Tenant Relations
			(5) Investigating the Apparent Compatibilities and/or Incompatibilities between Structures in Terms of Their Situational Logics
			(6) Investigating the Conjunctural, Hermeneutically Informed Relations between Social and Systems Integration
		Conclusion
Part III Agency
	8 Enter the Passive Agent
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Conditions for the ‘Generalized Other’ to Govern Socialization in Modernity
			Second-Hand Dispositions instead of First-Person Concerns
			Agency without Personal Concerns
			The Role of Empirical Work
	9 Agents as Individuals and Dispositions as Plural
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		On Dispositions
		On Socialization
		On the Social Contexts of Action
		On Concerns
		‘Indeterminate Determinism’
		Conclusion
	10 Two Types of Agency, But Are They Not Related?
		Article Abstract
		Introduction
		Unpacking the ‘Black Box’ of Agency
		Sources of Structural Constraints?
		Sources of Agential Freedoms?
		Actions and Modes of Reflexivity?
		Conclusion: Bringing Together Type 1 and Type 2 of Agency