Název: Social structure: a history of the concept
Zdrojový dokument: Pro-Fil. 2023, roč. 24, č. 2, s. 18-29
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18-29
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ISSN1212-9097 (online)
Trvalý odkaz (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/pf23-2-37336
Trvalý odkaz (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.79840
Type: Článek
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International
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Abstrakt(y)
The concept of social structure, present in social ontology since the 19 th century, has been used in various, not always clearly specified, meanings. The present use of the concept has been decisively influenced by the elaborations in the hands of the so called "new structuralists" of the 1970s: Pierre Bourdieu, Roy Bhaskar and Anthony Giddens. To understand the contemporary developments, it is necessary to be acquainted with its formative influences. In the paper, we compare the approaches of Bha skar and Giddens, especially in the context of their mutual compatibility and the challenges facing anyone wanting to develop their own concept of social structure based on the elaborations of the concept by Bhaskar and Giddens. The most fundamental issues appear to be especially the mode of existence of social structures, the heterogeneous character of different kinds of social structures, and the transition from the ontology of the natural world to that of the social world by Bhaskar.
Note
The work on this paper was supported by the Czech Science Foundation grant No. 21-25233S.
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