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Mar 2, 2017 · For Giddens – people make society but with resources and ‘practices’ inherited from the past. Structure for Giddens is not something which exists outside of the individual, but just patterns of practices. As practices change so does structure, and vice-versa. Most of our practices take place at the level of practical consciousness, where ...
Oct 1, 2014 · Anthony Giddens is one of the most widely cited social theorists in organization studies, but the focus in this chapter is on only a small part of his voluminous output. This is his structuration theory, which has had a major influence on significant approaches such as the new institutionalism and practice-based approaches to the study of organizations.
Oct 5, 2012 · Of course, Giddens is a practice theorist himself; for him, understanding people's activity is the central purpose of social analysis. But more than this, he has developed concepts of agency, structure and structuration that have intrinsic importance to practice research.
- Richard Whittington
- 2010
Hence, Giddens defines power as a part of social encounters. That is to say, power is not regarded as external to social practices but as implicit in all interactions and social relations. Giddens distinguishes between two types of transformative capacities: the transformative capacity of (1) authorization and (2) allocation.
Oct 5, 2015 · Giddens has an indirect appeal as well, however, for his central concepts can help connect strategy as practice to other streams of organizational research too. The structurationist sense of flow builds a bridge to the important process tradition in organization theory, which has long drawn on structuration theory to analyse change over time (Pettigrew 1985; Floyd et al . 2011; Langley 2009).
- Richard Whittington
- 2010
In the first part of the article, the development of Giddens' thought is briefly traced and essential features of his current theory are described (his concept of action; his critique of functionalism and evolutionism; his theory of temporality and power).
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agency and social theory 131 of the ethnographer's practice which Ortner skirts in her map of the new world of theory. The result is that we increasingly recognize that ethnographies are genres as much as other literary. forms, that the categories of ethnographic recording are also socially constructed.
