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Tying Micro and Macro

What Fills up the Sociological Vacuum?

Mikołaj Pawlak author Andrzej Rychard editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:25th May '18

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This study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author’s aim is to refute the claim that the sociological vacuum is relevant for major social processes occurring in Poland. He presents the sociological vacuum in the context of the debate on micro and macro levels and discusses how the theory of fields and social network analysis is useful to reconcile the micro-macro divide. The book considers the uses of the sociological vacuum in explaining such phenomena as the Solidarność social movement, civil society, social capital, and democracy. In the empirical part, the author confronts the data on identifications with the data on relations and claims that the vacuum is not in the society but it in sociology.

ISBN: 9783631665930

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 425g

272 pages

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