Structure, culture, and history: recent issues in social theory

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Structural analysis : past, present and future. History of social structural analysis / Charles Crothers. Social structure : the future of a concept / Douglas V. Porpora -- Culture and social structure. How are structures meaningful? : cultural sociology and theories of structure / Lynn Spillman. Agency, structure and deritualization : a comparative investigation of extreme disruptions of social order / J. David Knottnerus -- Global power, hegemonic decline, and cultural narratives / Albert J. Bergesen. Situating hybridity : the positional logics of a discourse / Jonathan Friedman -- A structural theory of the five thousand year world system / Barry K. Gills and Andre Gunder-Frank. Evolutionary pulsations in the world system / George Modelski and William R. Thompson. Paradigms bridged : institutional materialism and world-systemic evolution / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. Ecology in command / Sing C. Chew. Applications of elementary theory to structures of antiquity / Brent Simpson and David Willer -- Micro and macro structures : interactions and organizations. Gender, institutions and difference : the continuing importance of social structure in understanding gender inequality in organizations / Amy S. Wharton. Social structure and social exchange / Joseph Whitmeyer and Karen S. Cook. Social organizations across space and time : the policy process / Peter M. Hall and Patrick J. W. McGinty. Acts, persons, positions, and institutions : legitimating multiple objects and compliance with authority / Henry A. Walker, Larry Rogers, and Morris Zelditch