01324nam a22001577a 4500 510232 510232 190808b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Pleasants, Nigel 7865 Free will, determinism and the "problem" of structure and agency in the social sciences 2019 p.3-30. The so-called “problem” of structure and agency is clearly related to the philosophical problem of free will and determinism, yet the central philosophical issues are not well understood by theorists of structure and agency in the social sciences. In this article I draw a map of the available stances on the metaphysics of free will and determinism. With the aid of this map the problem of structure and agency will be seen to dissolve. The problem of structure and agency is sustained by a failure to distinguish between metaphysical and empirical senses of the relation between social structure and individual agency. The ramifications of this distinction are illustrated via a case study of competing explanations of perpetrator behavior in Christopher Browning’s and Daniel Goldhagen’s studies of the German Order Police in the Holocaust. - Reproduced. Structure and agency 7866 Philosophy of the Social Sciences Social Sciences AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 384172 IIPA IIPA 2019-08-08 49(1), Jan, 2019: p.3-30. AR120182 2019-08-08 AR