ISBN:
9780745600079
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXVII, 402 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Constitution of Society : Outline of the Theory of Structuration
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens's concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own i
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Elements of the Theory of Structuration; The Agent, Agency; Agency and Power; Structure, Structuration; The Duality of Structure; Forms of Institution; Time, the Body, Encounters; 2 Consciousness, Self and Social Encounters; Reflexivity, Discursive and Practical Consciousness; The Unconscious, Time, Memory; Erikson: Anxiety and Trust; Routinization and Motivation; Presence, Co-Presence and Social Integration; Goffman: Encounters and Routines; Seriality; Talk, Reflexivity; Positioning
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Notes: Freud on Slips of the Tongue3 Time, Space and Regionalization; Time-Geography; Critical Comments; Modes of Regionalization; Front Regions, Back Regions; Disclosure and Self; Regionalization as Generic; Time, Space, Context; Against 'Micro' and 'Macro': Social and System Integration; Critical Notes: Foucault on Timing and Spacing; 4 Structure, System, Social Reproduction; Societies, Social Systems; Structure and Constraint: Durkheim and Others; Three Senses of 'Constraint'; Constraint and Reification; The Concept of Structural Principles; Structures, Structural Properties
Description / Table of Contents:
ContradictionMaking History; Critical Notes: 'Structural Sociology' and Methodological Individualism; Blau: a Version of Structural Sociology; An Alternative? Methodological Individualism; 5 Change, Evolution and Power; Evolutionism and Social Theory; Adaptation; Evolution and History; Analysing Social Change; Change and Power; Critical Notes: Parsons on Evolution; 6 Structuration Theory, Empirical Research and Social Critique; A Reiteration of Basic Concepts; The Analysis of Strategic Conduct; Unintended Consequences: Against Functionalism; The Duality of Structure
Description / Table of Contents:
The Problem of Structural ConstraintContradiction and the Empirical Study of Conflict; Institutional Stability and Change; Drawing Together the Threads: Structuration Theory and Forms of Research; Mutual Knowledge versus Common Sense; Generalizations in Social Science; The Practical Connotations of Social Science; Critical Notes: Social Science, History and Geography; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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