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Micro-Macro Integration
Modern Sociological Theory

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Micro Macro
This Web page discusses a number of micro-macro integrationist theories, but it also includes a discussion of notable agency-structure theorists such as Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, and Pierre Bourdieu.
( http://www.southernct.edu/~blochj/mpi1.html )
The Norbert Elias Foundation
This site provides a collection of Elias's papers, papers about Elias, and information about the foundation that keeps his papers.
( http://www.norberteliasfoundation.nl/ )
Aspects of Theoretical Sociology
This Web page provides short summaries of both micro- and macro-level theories, as well as a short summary of micro-macro integration.
( http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/cpr/dbs/sp/lee.htm )
Sociological Explanations between Micro and Macro and the Integration of Qualitative and ...
An interesting paper that combines the discussion of the linkage between various levels of analysis with a discussion of the methods used for studying the world.
( http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01kelle-e.htm )
What is a social fact?
This Web page has an excerpt from Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method, a foundational statement of a macro-level structure.
( http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/%7Elridener/DSS/Durkheim/SOCFACT.HTML )
Theory, Science, and "Micro-Macro" Bridges
This freely available online article attempts to provide a theoretical justification for micro-macro integration from the perspective of formal theory.
( http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.1.4.html )
Diffusion of Protestantism and Capitalism
This paper offers a game-theoretic/economic justification for James Coleman's micro-macro linkage's in Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis.
( http://www.uu.nl/content/Paper205.pdf )
Ambiguous Integration
This page presents an undergraduate paper that attempts to compare and contrast various attempts at micro-macro integration.
( http://www.lib.utah.edu/epubs/undergrad/vol7/cowdell.html )
Free Will and Determinism
This Web page presents the philosophical underpinnings of the debate between macro-level structural determinism and micro-level actor/agent theories.
( http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~gnorton/phil200/philec13.htm )
Formal Demography
An essay applying the need for macro-micro integration to demography.
( http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/cpr/dbs/sp/lee.htm )