Marginalized Places and Populations

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Marginalized Places and Populations A Structurationist Agenda

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Edited by David Wilson and James O. Huff

ISBN: 0-275-94614-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94614-2

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280 pages, figures, maps, photographs, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/30/1994

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

History » Geography
Sociology » Demography

Description: This book is about the forces and processes that continue to sustain pervasive inequalities in modern capitalist societies. It centers around the rise of structuration theory in geography and how this approach may be applied in order to comprehend the deepening chasms between classes, races, ethnic groups, and individuals in North America today. Inner city urban neighborhood decay, growing poverty, widening wealth gaps, and sustained racial and gender discrimination in the workplace all have spatial components. Structuration theory, originally expounded by Anthony Giddens, seeks to confront the relation between agency and structure in the social sciences. The centerpiece of structuration theory is duality of structure, the force that produces and reproduces the fabric of everyday life. The chapters in this volume successfully apply Giddens's theory to a number of specific institutions and locales where unequal access to basic resources is notably pronounced.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Contemporary Human Geography--The Emergence of Structuration in Inequality Research by David Wilson and James O. Huff
Issues in Structuration Theory and Application
Structuration Theory in Urban Analysis by Michael J. Dear and Adam I. Moos
The Limits to Human Constructiveness: Giddens and Structuration Theory in Geography by David Wilson
Structuration Theory and Electronic Communications by Barney Warf
Empirical Applications
Small Towns as "Historical" Places: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Structuration Theory through the Study of Landscapes by John A. Jakle
Context Is Everywhere: Structuration, Community, and Social Order by John Eyles
Taking Control in the American West: An Application of Pred's Theory of Place by Jefferson S. Rogers
Gender Relations in Urban Growth Politics by Lynn Staeheli
Discursive Limits to Agency by Joshua Van Lieu and John Paul Jones
The Reproduction of Racial Differences in Educational Achievement: A Structurationist Analysis by Jeremy D. Browning
A Critical Analysis of Gender-based Property Relations in Ghana by Cherub Antwi-Nsiah and James O. Huff
Concluding Remarks: "The Giddens Phenomenon"--Fuzzy Theory and Empirical Cutting Edges by Eliza K. Ellis Husband
References
Index

LC Card Number: 93-32900

LCC Class: HM146

Dewey Class: 305


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