| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index. Sociology -- Society -- Social theorists -- Talcott Parsons --Analytical realism -- Modernity -- Rational choice -- Social exchange --Collective action -- Social norms -- Rational action -- Social structure -- Symbolic interaction -- Social constructs -- Interaction -- Self --Social order -- Reality -- Theory of expressive action -- Conflict --Collective agency -- Authority and conflict groups -- Social conflict --Stratification -- Systems -- Structural autonomy -- System integration --Causal mechanisms -- Methodology -- Social relations -- Production, domination and ideology -- Structuralism -- Collective representations --Cultural codes -- Hyperreality -- Interpretation -- Rules, roles and reasons -- Jurgen Habermas -- Labour -- Purposive and communicative action. |
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