On the Research side, I have some of the more traditional sources in line and I've found a lot of discussion about it in subfields like economic and organizational sociology and institutionalism and in multiple disciplines including philosophy, political science, and economics. Right now however, most of these are only citations. I have a RAP session scheduled for next Wednesday to hopefully get a more thorough source list. Largely, I just need to start reading the key texts and recording the key sub-issues within the larger problem.
On the writing side, I have worked out a preliminary scale to locate different theories' take on the Structure/Agency Problem which should help me organize my review and response to them. What I have read has also helped me pick up some preliminary thesis statement ideas.
On what's yet-to-be-determined, I need to figure out where I will take this piece. I know I'll review positions on the problem, critique them, and put in my own resolution; however, I'm not sure if that will take very much time. I'm no enemy to easiness, but there are a lot of key impacts that a resolution can have. There are ethical, legal, epistemological, and activist impacts that are all important and each of which I could go into. The question is whether to get into them and which ones to talk about.
If anyone is lost because they have no idea what I'm working on, my next post should be a short summary of what the Structure/Agency Problem is and why it's important.
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Wow Jason,
It sounds like you have most of your work cut out for you. I think that your topic is definately multidisciplinary as well as interdisciplinary.
I am interested in seeing your next blog post to see the progress and how the RAP session went.
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