Compare and contrast the micro-macro integration efforts in the United States with the European efforts to develop the relationship between agency and structure.
What will be an ideal response?
•?In the United States, a strong tradition of behaviorism means there is a stronger recognition of unthinking as opposed to supposedly rational behavior.
•?Europeans focus more on structure and in doing such, conflate that with culture (which American scholars focus on largely because of the structural functionalist influence on sociology).
•?The macro-micro distinction can be examined as levels of analysis while agency and structure cannot.
•?Agency-structure issues are more embedded in dynamic (and dialectical) historical frameworks that macro-micro integrations.
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