Identity and control: how social formations emerge
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Main Author: White, Harrison C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2008
Edition:2nd ed
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-417) and index
Identities seek control -- Networks and stories -- Three disciplines -- Styles -- Institutions and rhetorics -- Regimes of control -- Getting action -- Overview and contexts
In this completely revised edition of one of the foundational texts of network sociology, Harrison White refines and enlarges his groundbreaking theory of how social structure and culture emerge from the chaos and uncertainty of social life. Incorporating new contributions from a group of young sociologists and many fascinating and novel case studies, Identity and Control is the only major book of social theory that links social structure with the lived experience of individuals, providing a rich perspective on the kinds of social formations that develop in the process. Going beyond traditional sociological dichotomies such as agency/structure, individual/society, or micro/macro, Identity and Control presents a toolbox of concepts that will be useful to a wide range of social scientists, as well as those working in public policy, management, or associational life and, beyond, to any reader who is interested in understanding the dynamics of social life
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 427 p.)
ISBN:0691137145
0691137153
1400845904
9780691137148
9780691137155
9781400845903

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