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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens MAE (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than ...
The theory was proposed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, most significantly in The Constitution of Society, [1] which examines phenomenology, hermeneutics, and social practices at the inseparable intersection of structures and agents.
Giddens argues that just as an individual’s autonomy is influenced by structure, structures are maintained and adapted through the exercise of agency. The interface at which an actor meets a structure is termed “structuration.”
As a way of illustrating Giddens' significance for anthropologists, I briefly examine notions of agency in the two anthropologists in whose work Ortner sees the emergent forms of "practice theory," as she calls it.
Jan 15, 2010 · Structuration theory sought to unite functionalist and interactive traditions in a single theoretical framework which would explain social reproduction without derogating the lay actor ( Giddens 1979: 71). To that end, Giddens proposed three fundamental concepts; system, structure and structuration.
- Anthony King
- 2010
This approach is usually associated with "practice theory," with Bourdieu, Giddens, and Ortner, but 1 want to suggest that there was an interesting and useful literature produced thirty years ago that could contribute to a revitalized approach to some of the major problems of anthropology and social theory. There may be an interesting ...
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Anthony Giddens has developed structuration theory in such works as The Constitution of Society (1984). [7] He presents a developed attempt to move beyond the dualism of structure and agency and argues for the "duality of structure" – where social structure is both the medium and the outcome of social action , and agents and structures as ...
