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Conversations About Reflexivity
In this, the first book to focus on ‘Reflexivity’, the following is discussed in detail: 1) Where does the ability to be ‘reflexive’ comes from? 2) What part do our internal reflexive deliberations play in designing the courses of action we take? 3) Is ‘reflexivity’ a homogeneous practice for all people and invariant over history? Throughout, contributors refer to influential thinkers like Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu and Beck.
Social Morphogenesis
The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark.
Culture and Agency
Margaret Archer's Culture and Agency was first published in 1988, and proved a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described in Sociological Review as 'a timely and sophisticated treatment', the book showed that the 'problems' of culture and agency, on the one hand, and structure and agency, on the other, could be solved using the same analytical framework. In this revised edition of Culture and Agency, Margaret Archer contextualises her argument in 1990s cultural sociology and links it explicitly to her latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
What do young people want from life? This book shows how the 'internal conversation' guides individual choices.
Corpus Linguistics and the Web
Using the Web as Corpus is one of the recent challenges for corpus linguistics. This volume presents a current state-of-the-arts discussion of the topic. The articles address practical problems such as suitable linguistic search tools for accessing the www, the question of register variation, or they probe into methods for culling data from the web. The book also offers a wide range of case studies, covering morphology, syntax, lexis, as well as synchronic and diachronic variation in English. These case studies make use of the two approaches to the www in corpus linguistics – web-as-corpus and web-for-corpus-building. The case studies demonstrate that web data can provide useful additional evidence for a broad range of research questions.
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Explores the relationship between structure and agency through human reflexivity and the internal conversation.
Geographic Names of the Antarctic
List of names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Secretary of the Interior for features in Antarctic and the area extending northward to the Antarctic convergence. Each name is listed with its geographic coordinates, a description of the feature, and facts concerning the discovery, mapping, and naming of the feature. Foreword includes policy on antarctic names, the nature of the problem and how it was resolved.
