Elements of the Theory of Structuration
Item
- 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
- 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
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- 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.
- 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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