 | John M. Hobson - 2000 - 270 lapas
...noting two 'truisms' about social life: that (1) human beings and their organizations [eg the state] are purposeful actors whose actions help reproduce or transform the society in which they live; and (2) society [international/domestic] is made up of social relationships, which structure the interactions... | |
 | Colin Wight - 2006 - 287 lapas
...propositions about social life that lie at the heart of all social scientific inquiry.60 On the one hand, 'human beings and their organizations are purposeful...reproduce or transform the society in which they live'. Yet, on the other hand, we recognise that 'society is made up of social relationships, which structure... | |
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The agent-structure problem has its origins in two truisms about social life which underlie most social scientific inquiry: 1 ) human beings and their organizations are purposeful actors whose actions help reproduce or transform the society in which they... 