Resistance in Unjust Times: Archer, Structured Agency and the Sociology of Health Inequalities

Sociology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 142-156

  Scambler, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archer on internal conversations; critical realism; dedicated meta reflexives; focused autonomous reflexives; health inequalities; mobilizing for resistance; neoliberalism; social and material inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874556431     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512455878     Document Type: Article

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