Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and 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.
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' concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. "The Constitution of Society" is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.
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...Drawing upon Giddens (1984), the capacity to reflect, discuss, and learn from past experience is an important dimension of human agency....
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TL;DR: Factor analysis is used to identify user-defined repertoires from data obtained by following 495 users throughout an entire day, indicating the presence of four repertoires that are powerfully tied to the rhythms of people’s daily lives.
Abstract: New media have made available a wide range of platforms and content choices. However, audiences cope with abundant choices by using more narrowly defined repertoires. Unfortunately, we know little of how users create repertoires across media platforms. This study uses factor analysis to identify user-defined repertoires from data obtained by following 495 users throughout an entire day. Results indicate the presence of four repertoires that are powerfully tied to the rhythms of people's daily lives. These were in turn explained by a combination of factors such as audience availability and individual demographics.
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...Many of these recent studies have adapted Giddens’ (1984) theory of structuration as a way to understand how individuals operate within the media environment....
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...He notes that a fundamental concept in structuration is ‘routinization’ (Giddens, 1984: 60)....
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...Users thus rely on habit and iteration in creating their media repertoires, reflecting the agentic dimension of routinized action (Giddens, 1984)....
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TL;DR: This paper investigates what makes agents transform how they work with IT and how these transformations may be shared among members of the same work group and introduces the notion of social representations to the IS field in order to clarify these relationships.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an interdisciplinary and interactive approach for: (i) the understanding of competing claims and stakeholder objectives; (ii) the identification of alternative resource use options; and (iii) the scientific support to negotiation processes between stakeholders.
Abstract: Competing claims on natural resources become increasingly acute, with the poor being most vulnerable to adverse outcomes of such competition A major challenge for science and policy is to progress from facilitating univocal use to guiding stakeholders in dealing with potentially conflicting uses of natural resources The development of novel, more equitable, management options that reduce rural poverty is key to achieving sustainable use of natural resources and the resolution of conflicts over them Here, we describe an interdisciplinary and interactive approach for: (i) the understanding of competing claims and stakeholder objectives; (ii) the identification of alternative resource use options, and (iii) the scientific support to negotiation processes between stakeholders Central to the outlined approach is a shifted perspective on the role of scientific knowledge in society Understanding scientific knowledge as entering societal arenas and as fundamentally negotiated, the role of the scientist becomes a more modest one, a contributor to ongoing negotiation processes among stakeholders Scientists can, therefore, not merely describe and explain resource-use dynamics and competing claims, but in doing so, they should actively contribute to negotiation processes between stakeholders operating at different scales (local, national, regional, and global) Together with stakeholders, they explore alternatives that can contribute to more sustainable and equitable use of natural resources and, where possible, design new technical options and institutional arrangements
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...…change is a much more messy and unpredictable process, in which change emerges eventually as the unintended outcome of numerous intentional actions in different societal networks, which interact with each other in complex ways (Sharpf 1978, Giddens 1984, Sayer and Campbell 2004, Castells 2004)....
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TL;DR: Theorie und Praxis der Unternehmenskommunikation (im Sinne der englischsprachigen Disziplin Corporate Communication) is zumeist geleitet von anderen Ansatzen und Problemen als die der Disziplin Organisationskommuneation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Die Theorie und Praxis der Unternehmenskommunikation (im Sinne der englischsprachigen Disziplin Corporate Communication) ist zumeist geleitet von anderen Ansatzen und Problemen als die der Disziplin Organisationskommunikation. Gleichwohl beeinflusst das spezielle diszipnlinare Mindset der Unternehmenskommunikation, das auf Konsistenz, Koharenz und Konstanz von Unternehmensbotschaften ausgerichtet ist, zunehmend auch das Fachgebiet der Organisationskommunikation.
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...The dynamics of any social collectivity depends on a constant interplay between order and disorder (Morin, 1973, 1986), between society as instituted and society in the making (see also, Castoriadis, 1987; Giddens, 1984)....
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