In the third Centre for Social Ontology seminar of 2014/15, Graham Scambler (Emeritus Professor of Medical Sociology at UCL) discussed reflexivity and an interdisciplinary approach to the ‘structuring of agency’: Margaret Archer’s recent contributions to our understanding of reflexivity in late capitalist society provide useful resources for theorizing across the substantive domains of sociology. Using illustrations from my … Continue reading Graham Scambler on an interdisciplinary approach to the ‘structuring of agency’ →
Postmodernity. Second modernity. Network Society. Late modernity. Liquid modernity. Such concepts have dominated social thought in recent decades, with a bewildering array of claims about social change and its implications. But what do we mean by ‘social change’? How do we establish that such change is taking place? What does it mean to say that … Continue reading Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change – Launch Event, The British Library →
This collection, edited by Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan and Graham Scambler, seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of Margaret Archer’s work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of structure and agency, Archer’s work … Continue reading Structure, Culture and Agency: Selected Papers of Margaret Archer →
In keeping with Margaret Archer‘s wishes, the CSO is gathering a complete (as much complete as is feasible) list of her abundant publications in English (as well as some in French). This bibliographical work has been completed in January 2024 by Aristide Bertrand, secretary of the CSO and PhD candidate in organisation studies under the … Continue reading Publications →
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