Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 3 History of Social Structural Analysis
Chapter 4 Social Structure: The Future of a Concept
Part 5 Part II. Culture and Social Structure
Chapter 6 How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure
Chapter 7 Agency, Structure and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order
Chapter 8 Global Power, Hegemonic Decline, and Cultural Narratives
Chapter 9 Situating Hybridity: The Positional Logics of a Discourse
Part 10 Part III. History and Social Structure
Chapter 11 A Structural Theory of the Five Thousand Year World System
Chapter 12 Evolutionary Pulsations in the World System
Chapter 13 Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution
Chapter 14 Ecology in Command
Chapter 15 Applications of Elementary Theory to Structures of Antiquity
Part 16 Part IV. Micro and Macro Structures: Interactions and Organizations
Chapter 17 Gender, Institutions and Difference: The Continuing Importance of Social Structure in Understanding Gender Inequality in Organizations
Chapter 18 Social Structure and Social Exchange
Chapter 19 Social Organizations across Space and Time: The Policy Process, Mesodomain Analysis, and Breadth of Perspective
Chapter 20 Acts, Persons, Positions, and Institutions: Legitimating Multiple Objects and Compliance with Authority
Chapter 21 Index