Aubert memorial lecture 2022 - CANCELLED

Throughout her career, Margaret Archer has dealt with the fundamental problems of sociology, such as the relationship between actor, structure and culture, and between stability and change. Her "morphogenetic" approach seeks to elicit why different countries' education systems are so different, and why educational sociologists, such as Bourdieu, were so unconcerned with explaining such differences. The morphogenetic approach seeks to explain how institutions have come to be over time through interaction between actors, structures and culture, and identifies concrete methods for doing so.

Archer has left her mark on the development of critical realism within philosophy and sociology, together with names such as Roy Bhaskar and Andrew Sayer. She was the first woman to be elected president of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Archer's work on educational systems, Social Origins of Educational Systems, published in 1979, has become a classic text. Very recently, in 2022, she published a book about the Norwegian educational system, in collaboration with Norwegian educational researchers: The Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System: Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective.

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