"Margaret S. Archer is responsible for important conceptual developments in critical realism and the structure-agent problem but her explanatory framework often
In this final book by renowned sociologist Margaret S. Archer, her groundbreaking morphogenetic approach is defended, refined and extended through a series of e
Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between diff
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated.