Social Structure - Jonathan Eastwood

Social Structure Is Arguably The Central Concept Of Sociology, And In Recent Years A Much Wider Public Has Taken Up With Fresh Vigor The Sociological Idea That Persistent Inequalities Are Rooted In Social Structures. Yet There Seem To Be As Many Definitions Of The Term As There Are Sociologists, And We Often Struggle To Articulate Accessible Yet Precise Accounts Of Structures That Can Guide Empirical Research And Other Kinds Of Action. Jonathan Eastwood Offers A Set Of Pragmatic Strategies For Thinking About Social Structures, Emphasizing Ways In Which We Can Approach Them As Complex Lacings Of Relationships, Representations, And Rules.