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Assistant Professor at Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
Abstract
Margaret Archer’s sociological theory of morphology is a theory based on the integration paradigm among contemporary sociological theories. Through this approach, with a different attitude from Giddens, she deals with the relationship between structure and agency. Archer uses the interaction of the three elements of construction, agency and culture to develop her approach. She interprets sociology as an explanation of the interactions and compositions occurred between structure, agency, and culture. She believes that agency and structure are ontologically distinct and that combining them with Giddens's method is wrong. In fact, culture is a mediator between these two social concepts. The same as some sociologists care about objective matters, Archer cares about subjectivity. Archer sees the sociological profession as an explanation of the interactions and compositions derived from structure, agency, and culture. The present article with a documentary and library qualitative approach, reviews, evaluates and explains the morphological theory and tries to interpret it simply and practically.
Kamaledini, M. and Khademian, T. (2021). Mediating Culture of Agent and Structure: An Analysis of Margaret Archer's Morphological Theory. Scientific Biannual Journal of Language and Culture of Nations, 4(7), 39-56.
MLA
Kamaledini, M. , and Khademian, T. . "Mediating Culture of Agent and Structure: An Analysis of Margaret Archer's Morphological Theory", Scientific Biannual Journal of Language and Culture of Nations, 4, 7, 2021, 39-56.
HARVARD
Kamaledini, M., Khademian, T. (2021). 'Mediating Culture of Agent and Structure: An Analysis of Margaret Archer's Morphological Theory', Scientific Biannual Journal of Language and Culture of Nations, 4(7), pp. 39-56.
CHICAGO
M. Kamaledini and T. Khademian, "Mediating Culture of Agent and Structure: An Analysis of Margaret Archer's Morphological Theory," Scientific Biannual Journal of Language and Culture of Nations, 4 7 (2021): 39-56,
VANCOUVER
Kamaledini, M., Khademian, T. Mediating Culture of Agent and Structure: An Analysis of Margaret Archer's Morphological Theory. Scientific Biannual Journal of Language and Culture of Nations, 2021; 4(7): 39-56.
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