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The Subjectivist–Objectivist Divide: Against Transcendence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2000

Nicos Mouzelis
Nicos Mouzelis
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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Abstract

On the basis of a fourfold typology referring to different definitions of the social-structure concept, and of a critique of Giddens's and Bourdieu's strategies for transcending the divide between objectivist and subjectivist sociologies, this paper argues that rapprochement rather than transcendence is the way to overcome the existing fragmentation and for bringing closer together structural/structuralist and interpretative paradigms in the social sciences.

Keywords

duality/dualismhabitusinstitutional and figurational structuresparadigmatic/syntagmatic
Type
Research Article
Information
Sociology , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , November 2000 , pp. 741 - 762
Copyright
© 2000 BSA Publications Ltd

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