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dear academic hive mind: help me produce a comprehensive list of critiques of margaret archer’s work

I’m trying to put together a comprehensive list of critiques of Margaret Archer’s work. Any help would be appreciated! If you could e-mail me, leave them as a comment or tweet a link then I’ll add them to this list:

  1. Defining personal reflexivity: A critical reading of Archer’s approach. European Journal of Social Theory http://est.sagepub.com/content/18/1/60.short
  2. Reflexivity as Situated Problem-Solving. A Pragmatist Alternative to General Theory. Sociologica https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.2383/77051
  3. Fully Unconscious and Prone to Habit: The Characteristics of Agency in the Structure and Agency Dialectic Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jtsb.12002/full
  4. For “Central Conflation” A Critique of Archerian Dualism Sociological Theory http://stx.sagepub.com/content/32/2/79.short
  5. Reflexivity, relative autonomy and the embedded individual in economics Journal of Institutional Economics http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8823761&fileId=S1744137412000239
  6. Relational sociology, agency and interaction European Journal of Social Theory http://est.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/29/1368431015591426.abstract
  7. Melancholia and the Radical Particular: Against Archer’s Realism Graduate Journal of Social Science http://www.gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/papers/Journal-09-02–06-Allen.pdf
  8. Relational Sociology, Theoretical Inuhmanism and the Problem of the Nonhuman https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xS2wAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA45&ots=tCNuRt8Lvg&dq=%22margaret%20archer%22&lr&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q=%22margaret%20archer%22&f=false
  9. Interests and Structure in Dualist Social Theory
    A Critical Appraisal of Archer’s Theoretical and Empirical Arguments Philosophy of the Social Sciences http://pos.sagepub.com/content/42/4/489.short
  10. Social Causation: Between Social Constructionism and Critical Realism http://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/viewFile/508/514
  11. Emotional Reflexivity: Feeling, Emotion and Imagination in Reflexive Dialogues Sociology http://soc.sagepub.com/content/46/3/458.short
  12. Reflexivity and social change: A critical discussion of reflexive modernization and individualization theses Portuguese Journal of Social Science http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/pjss/2014/00000013/00000001/art00006
  13. A Return to ‘the Inner’ in Social Theory: Archer’s ‘Internal Conversation’ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nQnRAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA195&ots=BSQGyia0Ny&dq=%22margaret%20archer%22&lr&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q=%22margaret%20archer%22&f=false
  14. The Poverty of Ontological Reasoning Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/14608171/Tsilipakos_2012_Poverty_of_Ontological_Reasoning_libre.pdf
  15. The Reflexive Habitus http://est.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/24/1368431015590700.abstract
  16. Personal reflexivity and biography: methodological challenges and strategies International Journal of Social Research Methodology http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645579.2014.885154
  17. Questioning Contingency in Social Life Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5914.2012.00499.x/abstract
  18. Situierte Reflexivität: Margaret Archers Entwurf eines kritisch-realistischen Subjektverständnisses http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zksp.2014.1.issue-2/zksp-2014-0010/zksp-2014-0010.xml (seems to be published in English and German)
  19. Realist Social Theory and Its Losing Battle With Concepts http://pos.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/18/0048393114525859.abstract
  20. For a Social Ontology with a Self-Reflective Knowing Subject: Towards the Articulation of the Epistemic Criterion of Reflexivity https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/8274/Bouzanis2013.pdf?sequence=2
  21. On reflexivity and the conduct of the self in everyday life: reflections on Bourdieu and Archer British Journal of Sociology http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12150/abstract
  22. Ultimate concerns in late modernity: Archer, Bourdieu and reflexivity British Journal of Sociology http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12147/abstract
  23. http://t.co/foHRUC7YO5

I’ll be adding to this list myself. But any suggestions are greatly appreciated! At present the above list contains everything (in English) I could find via Google Scholar published from 2011 onwards, with the criteria being pieces that took Archer’s work as their overwhelming or exclusive focus.

Dave Elder-Vass has sent me a helpful list of items to add:

  • Elder-Vass (2007) ‘Reconciling Archer and Bourdieu in an Emergentist Theory of Action’ Sociological Theory, 25:4, 325-46.
  • Elder-Vass (2008) ‘For Emergence: Refining Archer’s Account of Social Structure’. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 37:1, 25-44. (Also see the responses by Porpora, Varela, and King in the subsequent issue).
  • Archer, M. and D. Elder-Vass (2012) ‘Cultural System or Norm Circles?’, European Journal of Social Theory 15:1, 93-115
  • HEALY, K. (1998). Conceptualising Constraint: Mouzelis, Archer and the Concept of Social Structure. Sociology, 32, 509-522
  • KING, A. (2004). The structure of social theory. London: Routledge
  • KING, A. (2006). How Not to Structure a Social Theory: A Reply to a Critical Response. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 36, 464-479
  • Depelteau (2008) ‘Relational Thinking: A Critique of Co-Deterministic Theories of Structure and Agency’ Sociological Theory 26 (1):51 – 73.
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