Margaret Archer, sociological theorist
Margaret Archer is in my view a major and somewhat neglected sociological theorist. Although rightly identified as a critical realist influenced by Roy Bhaskar, she is an independent-minded and powerful analyst in her own right. In this blog I sidestep much of the subject matter of my four previous blogs on her contributions on reflexivity to focus on the idea of the morphogenetic society. But a few contextual remarks are in order.
Archer has suggested that the structure/agency ‘problem’ lies at the core of her project. Her fascination with structure dates back to her post-doc days at the Sorbonne in the late 1960s and her judgement that the centralised structure of the French education system was significant for the political outburst that so nearly toppled the Fifth Republic. It was a case she made in her Social Origins of Education Systems (1979). This book also contained the seeds of morphogenetic approach.
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Archer has suggested that the structure/agency ‘problem’ lies at the core of her project. Her fascination with structure dates back to her post-doc days at the Sorbonne in the late 1960s and her judgement that the centralised structure of the French education system was significant for the political outburst that so nearly toppled the Fifth Republic. It was a case she made in her Social Origins of Education Systems (1979). This book also contained the seeds of morphogenetic approach.
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