The logics of social structure/ Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge Cniversity Press, 1993Description: x, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521417791Subject(s): Social structure | SociologyDDC classification: 301Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 301 KON/L (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P10798 |
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.
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