Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates

Social structure is the most fundamental and major concept in Sociology and Social Anthropology and for that reason, the theorists have consistently argued that if we want to understand the social system and social relationship in human society, then certainly we have to be very clear about the co...

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Main Author:	Karim, A.H.M Zehadul
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Published:	Kamla Raj Enterprises 2016
Subjects:	GN Anthropology
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spelling	iium-521702017-04-06T08:52:42Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/52170/ Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates Karim, A.H.M Zehadul GN Anthropology Social structure is the most fundamental and major concept in Sociology and Social Anthropology and for that reason, the theorists have consistently argued that if we want to understand the social system and social relationship in human society, then certainly we have to be very clear about the concept of social structure without having any ambiguity of it. There are a myriad of definitional references on social structure with persistent paradoxical debates, which are clarified in this paper through the writings and enunciation of sociologists and social anthropologists with referential sequences of time. While the concept of social structure has received theoretical treatise through the writings of different scholars and theoreticians, many empiricists however, have narrated the concept from their own field-based ethnographic details at the micro-level investigations, viewing that all forms of social interactions and activities occur within the framework of social structure in the societal and community contexts. This paper thus generates a cumulative number of critical discussions both at the theoretical and empirical spheres of sociological literature stemming towards developing its own paradigmatic thinking of social structure. Kamla Raj Enterprises 2016-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52170/1/T-ANTH-24-2-667-16-1287-Karim-A-H-M-Tx%5B32%5D.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/52170/7/52170-Conceptualizing%20social%20structure_SCOPUS.pdf Karim, A.H.M Zehadul (2016) Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates. The Anthropologist : International Journal of Contemporary and Applied Studies of Man, 24 (2). pp. 667-675. ISSN 0972-0073 http://krepublishers.com/02-Journals/T-Anth/Anth-24-0-000-16-Web/Anth-24-2-000-16-Abst-PDF/T-ANTH-24-2-667-16-1287-Karim-A-H-M/T-ANTH-24-2-667-16-1287-Karim-A-H-M-Tx[32].pdf
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description	Social structure is the most fundamental and major concept in Sociology and Social Anthropology and for that reason, the theorists have consistently argued that if we want to understand the social system and social relationship in human society, then certainly we have to be very clear about the concept of social structure without having any ambiguity of it. There are a myriad of definitional references on social structure with persistent paradoxical debates, which are clarified in this paper through the writings and enunciation of sociologists and social anthropologists with referential sequences of time. While the concept of social structure has received theoretical treatise through the writings of different scholars and theoreticians, many empiricists however, have narrated the concept from their own field-based ethnographic details at the micro-level investigations, viewing that all forms of social interactions and activities occur within the framework of social structure in the societal and community contexts. This paper thus generates a cumulative number of critical discussions both at the theoretical and empirical spheres of sociological literature stemming towards developing its own paradigmatic thinking of social structure.
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title	Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates
title_short	Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates
title_full	Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates
title_fullStr	Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates
title_full_unstemmed	Conceptualizing social structure: A reorientative discussion based on persistent paradoxical debates
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publisher	Kamla Raj Enterprises
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