ISBN-13: 9780745611174 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 196 str.
ISBN-13: 9780745611174 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 196 str.
Published by Polity for the first time, this is a new and revised edition of a book which has established itself as a basic text in social theory. The first section of the work provides a concise critical analysis of some leading schools of thought in social philosophy, giving particular attention to phenomenology, ethnomethodology and Wittgensteinian thought. Giddens concentrates primarily upon the implications of these various perspectives for an account of human action and its intelligibility. An action approach on its own, however, will not do; in human social life, action and structure presuppose one another. The author therefore moves on to provide a series of concepts relevant to understanding the production and reproduction of society. The book concludes with a succinct statement of some new rules of sociological method.