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On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
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In this article, a preliminary attempt to work out what a nonfunctionalist social theory which still retains the crucial element of determination would look like is made, and the paper is arranged in th...Abstract:
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The agent-structure problem in international relations theory
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative solution to the agent-structure problem, adapted from "structuration theory" in sociology, can overcome these inadequacies by avoiding both the reduction of system structures to state actors in neorealism and their reification in world-system theory.
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Place as Historically Contingent Process: Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical foundation for a different type of place-centered or regional geography, which is based upon an integration of time-geography and the emerging theory of structuration, and also builds upon a conceptualization of place as a constantly becoming human product as well as a set of features visible upon the landscape.
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Locality and social representation: Space, discourse and alternative definitions of the rural
TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of the theory of social representations is used to define the rural in terms of the disembodied cognitive structures which we use as rules and resources in order to make sense of our everyday world, through both discursive and non-discursive actions.
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Locality and Community in the Politics of Local Economic Development
Kevin R. Cox,Andrew Mair +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of the local dependence of various actors is explored with a view to explaining local politics: some firms are locally dependent and form business coalitions to stimulate investment in their local economy.
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Rethinking relational economic geography
TL;DR: The authors argue that much of the work in this relational turn is relational only in a thematic sense, focusing on various themes of socio-spatial relations without theorizing sufficiently the nature of relationality and its manifestation through power relations and actor-specific practice.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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The German Ideology
Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels +1 more
TL;DR: The authors made easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students, making it easily accessible.
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The moral economy of the english crowd in the eighteenth century
TL;DR: The food riot in eighteenth-century England is concerned in this article, where the common people can scarcely be taken as historical agents before the French Revolution. But this view can conceal what may be described as a spasmodic view of popular history.
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Identity and the Life Cycle.
TL;DR: This monograph is the first of a series published under the rubric ofPsychological Issuesthat deals with the analytic theory of behavior and is the theme of all of Erik Eriksen's unique contributions.