TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kontopoulos, Kyriakos M.
TI  - The logics of social structure
SN  - 0521417791
U1  - 301 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge Cniversity Press
KW  - Social structure
KW  - Sociology
N1  - pt. I. Metatheoretical considerations. 
1. Epistemic strategies in contemporary science. 
2. The dynamics of emergence: the case against reductionism. 
3. The nature of hierarchical and heterarchical organization. 
4. Some formal theses on hierarchy and heterarchy --

pt. II. Compositionist logics. 
5. Methodological individualism. 
6. Constructionism/compositionism: elementary notions. 
7. Complex systems of interaction --

pt. III. Logics of hierarchy. 
8. Hierarchy theory and postfunctional analysis. 
9. The hierarchical theory of social structure --

pt. IV. Heterarchical logics. 
10. Heterarchical thinking in social thought. 
11. Neural networks as a model of structure --

pt. V. The phenomenology of social structures. 
12. Modalities and systems of interaction. 
13. Heterarchical levels of social structure. 
14. On structural totalities --
15. In conclusion --
Appendix: The logics of structuration
ER  -