Human agents and social structures

Human agents and social structuresThis is a deliberately polemical intervention into the structure agency debate in the social sciences. It argues that central concepts in this debate such as society and the individual have been widely misconceived, and that progress in the social sciences will only occur if the real nature of the social world is respected.

It soon became apparent

and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the two media converge and diverge

has given way to suspicion and nationalism

and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages in the process and achieve effective management

New Flows in Global TV provides a pioneering investigation into television distribution worldwide and the global trade in television program formats

The city’s sprawling structure and rapid redevelopment – embodied by the high-rise apartments taking over historic districts – render Beijing’s streets hard to navigate and its culture is just as difficult to penetrate

edited by Fernando Ganzo

Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works

Its stylistic clarity and freedom from jargon make it readable and accessible

the radicalization of nurses from the 1960s

place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of these networks

relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought