The logics of social structure/
Kontopoulos, Kyriakos M.
The logics of social structure/ Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos - Cambridge: Cambridge Cniversity Press, 1993. - x, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
pt. I. Metatheoretical considerations.
1. Epistemic strategies in contemporary science.
2. The dynamics of emergence: the case against reductionism.
3. The nature of hierarchical and heterarchical organization.
4. Some formal theses on hierarchy and heterarchy --
pt. II. Compositionist logics.
5. Methodological individualism.
6. Constructionism/compositionism: elementary notions.
7. Complex systems of interaction --
pt. III. Logics of hierarchy.
8. Hierarchy theory and postfunctional analysis.
9. The hierarchical theory of social structure --
pt. IV. Heterarchical logics.
10. Heterarchical thinking in social thought.
11. Neural networks as a model of structure --
pt. V. The phenomenology of social structures.
12. Modalities and systems of interaction.
13. Heterarchical levels of social structure.
14. On structural totalities --
15. In conclusion --
Appendix: The logics of structuration.
0521417791
Social structure
Sociology
301 / KON/L
The logics of social structure/ Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos - Cambridge: Cambridge Cniversity Press, 1993. - x, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
pt. I. Metatheoretical considerations.
1. Epistemic strategies in contemporary science.
2. The dynamics of emergence: the case against reductionism.
3. The nature of hierarchical and heterarchical organization.
4. Some formal theses on hierarchy and heterarchy --
pt. II. Compositionist logics.
5. Methodological individualism.
6. Constructionism/compositionism: elementary notions.
7. Complex systems of interaction --
pt. III. Logics of hierarchy.
8. Hierarchy theory and postfunctional analysis.
9. The hierarchical theory of social structure --
pt. IV. Heterarchical logics.
10. Heterarchical thinking in social thought.
11. Neural networks as a model of structure --
pt. V. The phenomenology of social structures.
12. Modalities and systems of interaction.
13. Heterarchical levels of social structure.
14. On structural totalities --
15. In conclusion --
Appendix: The logics of structuration.
0521417791
Social structure
Sociology
301 / KON/L