Structure, Culture, and History Recent Issues

This book offers the newest research developments and theory in the re-emerging field of structural analysis. The first section provides an overview and appraisal of the history and future of structural analysis. Subsequent sections focus on culture, historical processes, and macro-micro level interactions. The book's synthetic essays take a variety of forms dealing with structural levels of analysis, agency and structure, multidimensional views of social structure, and theory integration. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Sing C. Chew is professor and chairperson at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. J. David Knottnerus is professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University.

Preface

vii

Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future

History of Social Structural Analysis

3

(40)

Charles Crothers

Social Structure: The Future of a Concept

43

(20)

Douglas V. Porpora

Part II. Culture and Social Structure

How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure

63

(22)

Lyn Spillman

Agency, Structure, and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order

85

(22)

J. David Knottnerus

Global Power, Hegemonic Decline, and Cultural Narratives

107

(18)

Albert J. Bergesen

Situating Hybridity: The Positional Logics of a Discourse

125

(26)

Jonathan Friedman

Part III. History and Social Structure

A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System

151

(26)

Barry K. Gills

Andre Gunder Frank

Evolutionary Pulsations in the World System

177

(20)

George Modelski

William R. Thompson

Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution

197

(20)

Christopher Chase-Dunn

Thomas D. Hall

Ecology in Command

217

(14)

Sing C. Chew

Applications of Elementary Theory to Social Structures of Antiquity

231

(26)

Brent Simpson

David Willer

Part IV. Micro and Macro Structures: Interactions and Organizations

Gender, Institutions, and Difference: The Continuing Importance of Social Structure in Understanding Gender Inequality in Organizations

257

(14)

Amy S. Wharton

Social Structure and Social Exchange

271

(32)

Joseph Whitmeyer

Karen S. Cook

Social Organizations across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective

303

(20)

Peter M. Hall

Patrick J. W. McGinty

Acts, Persons, Positions, and Institutions: Legitimating Multiple Objects and Compliance with Authority

323

(18)

Henry A. Walker

Larry Rogers

Morris Zelditch

Index

341

(2)

Contributor Affiliations

343

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