Generative mechanisms transforming the social order. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret S. Archer, editor.
• Editors: Archer, Margaret S (Margaret Scotford)
• Contents: Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Conceptions of Generative Mechanisms and Ours; Margaret S. Archer -- Part I. Conceptualising Mechanisms -- Chapter 2. Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences; Philip Gorski -- Chapter 3. Mechanisms and Models; Some Examples from International Relations; Colin Wright -- Chapter 4. Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks; Pierpaolo Donati -- Part II. Venturing Morphogenetic Mechanisms -- Chapter 5. ''Mechanisms'' of the Build-Up of Information Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 6. Body Captors and Network Profiles: A Neo-Structural Note on Digitalized Social Control and Morphogenesis; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 7. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transformation: Don't Forget the Double Morphogenesis; Margaret S. Archer -- Chapter 8. Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenic Environments; Andrea Maccarini -- Part III. Mechanisms and Morphostasis: Power of Life and Death -- Chapter 9. Why Don't Things Change? The Matter of Morphostasis; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 10. The Modern Corporation: The Site of a Mechanism (of Global Social Change) that is Out-of-Control; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 11. Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation; Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.44; Social sciences; Social change; Social evolution; International relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Social change; Social evolution; Sozialordnung; Sozialer Wandel; Moderne; Soziologische Theorie; Political Science -- International Relations -- General; International relations; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Social Sciences; Sociology, general; International Relations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319137735; 3319137735; 3319137727; 9783319137728
• Related ISBNs: 9783319137728
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.