Elisionism

Elisionism is a philosophical standpoint encompassing various social theories. Elisionist theories are diverse; however, they are unified in their adherence to process philosophy as well as their assumption that the social and the individual cannot be separated.^[1] The term elisionism was coined by Margaret Archer in 1995 in the book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach.^[2] Elisionism is often contrasted with holism, atomism, and emergentism.^[3]

Footnotes

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1. ^ Sawyer 2005, p. 175.
2. ^ Archer 1995, p. 60; Sawyer 2005, p. 125.
3. ^ Creaven 2000, p. 6.

Bibliography

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• Archer, Margaret S. (1995). Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511557675. ISBN 978-0-521-48442-8.
• Creaven, Sean (2000). Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203186114. ISBN 978-0-415-23622-5.
• Sawyer, R. Keith (2005). Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511734892. ISBN 978-0-521-84464-2.

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