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Margaret S. Archer has been Professor of Sociology at Warwick University since 1979. Her research interests have always centered on “the problem of Structure and Agency,” which is addressed in her five key books: Social Origins of Educational Systems (1979), Culture and Agency (1988), Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (1995), Being Human: The Problem of Agency (2000), and Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation (2003). She is the only woman to have been President of the International Sociological Association (1986–90) and is a foundation member and Councillor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Albert J. Bergesen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona. His books include God in the Movies (2003) with Andrew M. Greeley, and Cultural Analysis (1984) with Wuthnow, Hunter, and Kurzweil. Recent and forthcoming articles in the sociology of culture include “Durkheim's theory of mental categories: a review of the evidence,” Annual Review of Sociology (forthcoming); “Chomsky vs. Mead,” Sociological Theory (forthcoming); “The Columbia social essay,” American Behavioral Scientist (2002); and “A linguistic model of art history,” Poetics (2000). Daniel Thomas Cook is Assistant Professor in the Department of Advertising, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Commodification of Childhood , ... log in or subscribe to read full text