‘Social integration and System integration’
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 26 September 1996
Margaret S. Archer
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As I stressed at the start, the main impetus behind this book was to see whether using Lockwood's distinction between ‘social’ and ‘system’ integration was as fruitful in the cultural realm as it had proved to be in the structural domain. The final task is to argue that conceptualizing them in the same way does open up the possibility of a unified theory capable of dealing with their interplay and thus of theorizing about morphostasis/morphogenesis at the societal level.