Beschreibung:
Structuration provides an introduction to this central debate in social theory and helps to explain the historical processes, producing the structures that shape human social life. The debate has important consequences for the way we explain the production and transformation of social structures such as institutions and rules, cultural traditions, and distributions of power and inequality.
Part 1 Contexts: introduction; the structurationist imagination and the making of history; recovering human agency. Part 2 The "structurationists": Bordieu -structuration through power; Giddens - structuration through knowledgeable persons. Part 3 Beyond the structurationists - back to reality: Archer -structuration and the defence of "analytical dualism"; Mouzelis - the restructuring of "structuration" theory; the recovery of history and structure; structuration and historical sociology.