Elements of the Theory of Structuration
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Elements of the Theory of Structuration
Abstract/Description
Like Bourdieu, British sociologist Anthony Giddens seeks to make social practices ordered across space and time, rather than the experiences of individual actors or any kind of societal totality, the focus of social scientific investigation. Unlike Bourdieu, who stresses the unconscious and, in that sense determinative, source of behavior in the generative schemes produced by the form of social conditioning he calls habitus, Giddens emphasizes the productive role that actors themselves play in the maintenance and recreation of social codes and norms. For Giddens, structure teaches agents who help to form the structure, in a circular process that Giddens terms “structuration.”
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Date
Editor
Pages
119-140
Publisher
Routledge
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Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
No
ISBN
978-0-203-33569-7
Citation
Giddens, A. (1984). Elements of the Theory of Structuration. In G. M. Spiegel (Ed.) Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn (pp. 119–140). Routledge.
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
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