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The constitution of society : outline of the theory of structuration /Anthony Giddens

By: Anthony GiddensContributor(s): Anthony GiddensMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , 1986Description: xxxvii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780745600079Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Social structureDDC classification: 301 GID

Contents:

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 -- 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 ; Critical notes: Freud on slips of the tongue -- 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 -- 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 ; Contradiction ; Making history ; Critical notes: 'Structural sociology' and methodological individualism ; Blau : a version of structural sociology ; An alternative? Methodological individualism -- Change, evolution and power. Evolutionism and social theory ; Adaptation ; Evolution and history ; Analysing social change ; Change and power ; Critical notes: Parsons on evolution -- 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 ; The problem of structural constraint ; Contradiction 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.

Summary: Offers a statement of a perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas. This book is suitable for those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

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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 --
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 ; Critical notes: Freud on slips of the tongue --
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 --
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 ; Contradiction ; Making history ; Critical notes: 'Structural sociology' and methodological individualism ; Blau : a version of structural sociology ; An alternative? Methodological individualism --
Change, evolution and power. Evolutionism and social theory ; Adaptation ; Evolution and history ; Analysing social change ; Change and power ; Critical notes: Parsons on evolution --
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 ; The problem of structural constraint ; Contradiction 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.

Offers a statement of a perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas. This book is suitable for those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

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