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  • Thus some theorists, e.g. Emile Durkheim (Durkheim 1964) are held to conceive of structure as sui generis in relation to individual agency; and indeed, at least in the case of structuralists such as Althusser

    Social Institutions Miller, Seumas 2007

  • The proposition of structuralists such as Althusser is that institutional structures (in the sense of a structure of social roles and social norms) are a basic, non-reducible feature of the world and the actions, values, self-images and the like of individual human agents must conform to these structures because individual agency, properly understood, is in fact constituted by such structures.

    Social Institutions Miller, Seumas 2007

  • There's being born as seen through the eyes of Sartre, starting school with Louis Althusser, losing your virginity with Madonna, even having a midlife crisis with Dante, right up to crawling into old age with Proust.

    Driving With Plato: The Meaning Of Life's Milestones Through The Eyes Of Philosophers (PHOTOS) 2011

  • Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc.

    Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011

  • From my youthful education in the school of Louis Althusser I have retained a healthy mistrust for historical explanations based on technology and technical change.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc.

    Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011

  • From my youthful education in the school of Louis Althusser I have retained a healthy mistrust for historical explanations based on technology and technical change.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • I'm in, as long as we buy our uniforms from Gramsci and Althusser, Clothiers, Inc.

    No Retreat, Baby, No Surrender 2010

  • From my youthful education in the school of Louis Althusser I have retained a healthy mistrust for historical explanations based on technology and technical change.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

  • Ironically, I parlayed that paper into my Master's Thesis, but the theory was gradually whittled away from each successive draft until all that remained was one mention of Althusser in a footnote.

    Priorities Prof. de Breeze 2008

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