Exploring Self And Society

Rosamund Billington

• 24 juni 1998
• 9780333632239

Samenvatting:

It adopts a broad social science approach which reflects both the authors' competencies and also the widening and overlaying boundaries of the social sciences.



This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a broad social science approach which reflects both the authors' competencies and also the widening and overlaying boundaries of the social sciences. Starting with the problem-oriented agenda of the social sciences, it explores the tensions between structure, agency and process via the idea of a structure-bound and yet creative and participatory self.