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1. Jan. 2015 · Introduction Anthony Giddens’ (1984) structuration theory has an obvious appeal for strategy-as-practice researchers. Of course, Giddens is a practice theorist himself; for him, understanding...
- Richard Whittington
Setting out from a critique and reformulation of Anthony Giddens's notion of the duality of structure and Pierre Bourdieu's notion of habitus, this article at-tempts to develop a theory of structure that restores human agency to social actors, builds the possibility of change into the concept of structure, and overcomes the divide between semiot...
According to Giddens, the best that social theory can offer is a series of "sensitizing concepts" that alert investigators to processes among active human agents. Giddens links functionalism, evolutionism, and positivism; and in so doing, he further indicts positiv- ism in terms of "guilt by association."
This chapter presents Anthony Giddens’ proposal to reconcile the opposition between structure and agency. His struc-turation theory proposes to see structure and agency as mutually constitutive, as a duality: as inseparable as the two sides of a coin (cf. Craib, 1992).
Ira Cohen interweaves a detailed study of Anthony Giddens' writings on structuration theory with independent arguments and original concepts to provide a comprehensive analysis of structuration theory's new approach to the subject matter of the social sciences.
- Ira J. Cohen
The work of the contemporary British sociologist Anthony Giddens, and in particular his structuration theory, has been widely cited by Information Systems researchers. This paper. presents a critical review of the work of Giddens and its application in the Information Systems field. Following a brief overview of Giddens's work as a whole, some key.
Structuration in Context. The development of structuration theory needs to be set in the context of broader intellectual trends. Giddens’s early work sought to present some of the classic thinkers in social theory and rescue what he saw as their enduring strengths from subsequent accretions.
