[Xmca-l] Re: Margaret Archer

[Andy Blunden]

I have her "Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation" which makes 
on think of Vygotsky. But I think I'll order the one Paul recommends 
too: " Culture and agency: the place of culture in social theory"
Another question: does she have a specific approach to historical research?
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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mike cole wrote:
> Sounds interesting, thanks for pointing to Archer's work.
> mike
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> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Dr. Paul C. Mocombe 
> <pmocombe@mocombeian.com <mailto:pmocombe@mocombeian.com>> wrote:
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>     I have andy...her work is a critique of anthony giddens'
>     structurationists praxis theory.  Giddens attempts to resolve the
>     structure agency problematic through his notion of duality. 
>     Giddens argues that consciousness and social structure is a
>     duality, the internalization of a social structure as recursively
>     organized and reproduced as a social actor's practical
>     consciousness.  Margaret archer takes Giddens ' s structure-agency
>     issue in another direction by demonstrating the linkage between
>     agency and culture as proposed by activity theorists.  So for
>     archer, structure, culture, and agency can be distinguished for
>     analytic purposes, although they are intertwined in social life.
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>     See her work (1988),
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>     Culture and agency: the place of culture in social theory
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>     <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Andy
>     Blunden <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
>     </div><div>Date:02/11/2015  10:12 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To:
>     "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu
>     <mailto:xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>> </div><div>Subject: [Xmca-l] 
>     Margaret Archer </div><div>
>     </div>Is there anyone on line who has read Margaret Archer and can
>     give me an
>     opinion on how her ideas fit with Vygotsky and Activity Theory and how
>     her social theory stacks up?
>     Andy
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> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an 
> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
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