The Logics of Social Structure

ISBN: 9780521032698 出版年：1993 页码：493 Kyriakos M Kontopoulos Cambridge University Press

Preface Introduction Part I. Metatheoretical Considerations: 1. Epistemic strategies in contemporary science 2. The dynamics of emergence: the case against reductionism 3. The nature of hierarchical and heterarchical organization 4. Some formal theses on hierarchy and heterarchy Part II. Compositionist Logics: 5. Methodological individualism 6. Constructionism/compositionism: elementary notions 7. Complex systems of interaction Part III. Logics of Hierarchy: 8. Hierarchy theory and postfunctional analysis 9. The hierarchical theory of social structure Part IV. Heterarchical Logics: 10. Heterarchical thinking in social thought 11. Neural networks as a model of structure Part V. The Phenomenology of Social Structures: 12. Modalities and systems of interaction 13. Heterarchical levels of social structure 14. On structural totalities 15. In conclusion Appendix: the logics of structuration: an inventory Glossary Bibliography Index.