Structuration /
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| Author / Creator: | Parker, John, 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Buckingham [England] ; Phildelphia [Pa.] : Open University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xi, 142 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Concepts in the social sciences |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4400995 |
| Summary: | This text 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. few would dispute that social reality is produced by creative human agents operating in pre-existing structural contexts, but social; theorists are divided over how structure and agency are related. John Parker contrasts the views of Bourdieu and Giddens, who uphold duality (identity), with those of the post-structurationists, Archer and Mouzelis, who defend dualism (non-identity). The context and logic of the duality arguments are examined, but it is suggested that Giddens' structuration theory is outdated, and the emphasis is placed on making accessible the positive suggestions of the post-structurationist dualists in relation to actual historical cases. The debate about structuration has important consequences for the way we explain the production and transformation of social structures such as institutions and rules, cultural traditions, patterns or regular behaviour, and distributions of power and inequality. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 142 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [126]-134) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0335203957 0335203949 |