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Elements of the Theory of Structuration

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Title
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.”
Author/creator
Giddens, Anthony
Date
1984
In publication
Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn
Editor
Spiegel, Gabrielle M.
Pages
119-140
Publisher
Routledge
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
en No
ISBN
978-0-203-33569-7
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)
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.
Cited in
The Work of Improvement
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
Place
London
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 2 Citations

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