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This 5 page paper provides an overview and discussion on Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. The potential uses of the theory are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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1992). Indeed, structuration theory seems to pop up everywhere which perhaps explains its appeal. Structuration theory is diverse and something devised by Giddens himself. It is something that is applicable
to a variety of disciplines and useful in various types of analyses. What is structuration theory? Giddens early works in the 1970s looked at ways in which the classic sociology
theorists contributed to an analysis of society during the late twentieth century (King, 1999). From the works came a focused interest in both structure and agency and soon structuration theory
would emerge as something that tried to overcome the dual nature of structure and agency (1999). The author accomplished this through a meld of structuralism along with interpretivist traditions (1999).
Functionalists such as Parsons and structuralists like Levi-Strauss each had a tendency to overemphasize objective factors of social life, which was at the cost of the individual agent (1999).
The interactionist and interpretive traditions, which have been occupied by the likes of Goffman and Garfinkel, did the complete opposite and overestimated the relevance of individual agents (1999). Structuration
theory attempts to explain how social relations are able to span time and space and reproduce through social systems and meaningful individual action (King, 1999). Giddens came up with
the notion of "the duality of structure" or the fact that structure constitutes rules and resources which orients individual action (1999). Thus, when an individual does something, he or
she draws on the virtual rules in order to carry out certain social practices, thereby reproducing the rules (1999). Some may deem this as a vicious cycle or a Catch-22
situation. The rules are hard to change because they get passed on even if there is no sense for the rule to begin with. One example of passing on such
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