The Educational Aspirations of English Working Class Parents (1967)
Doctoral advisor
David Glass
Influences
Roy Bhaskar[1]
Lord Giddens
Academic work
Discipline
Sociology
Sub-discipline
Social theory
sociology of education
School or tradition
Critical realism
Institutions
University of Reading
University of Warwick
Main interests
Structure and agency
Notable works
Culture and Agency (1988)
Realist Social Theory (1995)
Being Human (2000)
Notable ideas
Elisionism
Margaret Scotford ArcherFAcSS MAE (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was an English sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences,[2] and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019.
^King, Anthony (2010). "The Odd Couple: Margaret Archer, Anthony Giddens and British Social Theory". The British Journal of Sociology. 61 (special issue): 255. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01288.x. ISSN 1468-4446. PMID 20092496.
^Lenartowick, Kerri. "British woman appointed by Pope to head Pontifical Academy". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
Margaret Scotford Archer FAcSS MAE (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was an English sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University...
between system integration and social integration of the lifeworld. MargaretArcher (2004) in a revised edition of her classic work Culture and Agency...
authors, for example in economics by Tony Lawson and in sociology by MargaretArcher. In 2005, the Journal of Management Studies debated the merits of critical...
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, life peer, convicted criminal, and former elected...
rather than determinative of, individual behavior. Other recent work by MargaretArcher (morphogenesis theory), Tom R. Burns and Helena Flam (actor-system...
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singer ("My Cup Runneth Over", "Time, Time") and actor (Daniel Boone). MargaretArcher, 80, English sociologist. Antón Arrufat, 87, Cuban writer and poet...
California and featuring private detective Lew Archer. Since the 1970s, Macdonald's works (particularly the Archer novels) have received attention in academic...
Oswald; economic historian Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky; Lady MargaretArcher, theorist in critical realism, former Warwick lecturer and accelerationist...
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Millar Archer near Dundee, Scotland, one of nine children from the two marriages of his ploughman father David Archer. His mother MargaretArcher was his...
Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare, DBE (née Weeden; born 22 December 1944) is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion...
dialectic of control and his/her more constrained set of "real choices." MargaretArcher objected to the inseparability of structure and agency in structuration...
British radio soap The Archers. Jill Archer née Patterson (born 3 October 1930) (Patricia Greene) is the widow of Phil Archer and matriarch of the family...
Deborah Feingold – photography Notes Parody lyrics were written by MargaretArcher, Chet Atkins, and Mark Knopfler. Citations "Neck and Neck". Discogs...
individual cannot be separated. The term elisionism was coined by MargaretArcher in 1995 in the book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach...
the Internet Archive. Tait was married to MargaretArcher Porter (1839–1926), the sister of (1) William Archer Porter, a lawyer and educationist who served...
“Relational Subject” is characterized by personal reflexivity (as defined by MargaretArcher), the ‘relational society’ is characterized what Donati calls ‘relational...
Street, London, the son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and his wife MargaretArcher. Shortly after his birth the family moved to France, where Crowe's...
married Alexander Crum Brown, the Scottish organic chemist and (3) MargaretArcher Porter, who married Peter Tait (physicist). He was educated at Glasgow...
and Olympian Margaret Martin (born 1979), American professional bodybuilder Margaret Maughan (1928–2020), British Paralympic archerMargaret McIver (1933–2020)...
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