Beyond the antinomies of structure: Levi-Strauss, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Sewell

Theory and Society

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 651-688

  Lizardo, Omar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Giddens; Levi Strauss; Methodology; Ontology; Social structure; Structuralism; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049368815     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: 15737853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-010-9125-1     Document Type: Article

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