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Martin provides an accessible and workable perspective as he examines the array of social structures, from the smaller, such as cliques or family, to the larger construct of nation... In short, this is an excellent book, substantive in supporting Martin's claims as well as provocative in terms of generating further inquiry. Readers will find Martin's perspective both intriguing and well supported. Choice

While his interest in structures has a venerable lineage, Martin's approach is highly distinctive... The book is without doubt an eclectic, ambitious, provocative, sophisticated, and instructive undertaking... Social Structures deserves a wide readership and its ideas a sympathetic hearing. -- Science Martin provides an accessible and workable perspective as he examines the array of social structures, from the smaller, such as cliques or family, to the larger construct of nation... In short, this is an excellent book, substantive in supporting Martin's claims as well as provocative in terms of generating further inquiry. Readers will find Martin's perspective both intriguing and well supported. -- Choice [R]ather than giving the impression of being the beginning of a new, exciting research program, Social Structures rather feels like a well-deserving closing chapter for the project of a specifically 'sociological' form of structuralist explanation. -- Omar Lizardo, Sociologica Social Structures is illuminating--good to think with and fun to argue with. It belongs on a short shelf of important contributions to structural theories of society. -- Paul DiMaggio, American Journal of Sociology

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John Levi Martin is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

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