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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TL;DR: The strongest predictors of health in multivariate and multilevel models were characteristics of individual survey respondents, namely, income, trust in politicians and governments, and trust in other members of the community.
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...…is a long-standing body of sociological research concerned with the character of the structure–agency dichotomy (such as the structuration theory of Giddens, 1984 or the notion of collective lifestyles proposed by Frohlich Corin, & Potvin, 2001) that cannot be incorporated into multilevel…...
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TL;DR: This article argued that business schools must incorporate Mode 2 production methods if they are to be significant knowledge producers in the future and reinforced their specific suggestions about how that might be accomplished by focusing on early Mode 2 attempts, promoting practitioner research, seeking business co-sponsorship and sheltering some Mode 1 practices and values, including longitudinal reflective research and information storage.
Abstract: This commentary agrees with Starkey and Madan (2001) that business schools must incorporate Mode 2 production methods if they are to be significant knowledge producers in the future. We reinforce their specific suggestions about how that might be accomplished by focusing on learning from early Mode 2 attempts, promoting practitioner research, seeking business co-sponsorship and sheltering some Mode 1 practices and values, including longitudinal reflective research and information storage. We also argue, however, that business schools must go beyond such tasks, difficult and expensive though they are. The way business and business schools currently operate, and are being encouraged to operate, does not address the broader issues of human relevance that concern James March (1998) and others. The gap here is a risk for business and society, and appears to require new, Mode 3, methods of knowledge production.
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...…the rest of this commentary we want to shift attention to the context surrounding the link between knowledge and action, highlighting the often unacknowledged human antecedents for organizational action, and their often unanticipated human consequences (Giddens, 1984; Huff and Huff, 2000, p. 207)....
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that an analysis of im/politeness as social practice necessitates a move away from a simplistic speaker-hearer model of interaction to a consideration of the broader participation framework within which they arise, and the positioning of the analysts vis-a-vis that participation order.
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TL;DR: This article introduced the phenomenological tradition through the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to capture and communicate the meanings of different entrepreneurial experiences, which allows for a deeper understanding of how theoretical concepts and empirical events are understood and translated into action by entrepreneurs.
Abstract: Much entrepreneurship research explicitly or implicitly employs positivistic methods where theoretical concepts and the things we encounter in the world are treated as unequivocally given. While important such approaches tend to bracket many animated aspects of human being and behaviour commonly associated with entrepreneurship. To offer an alternative this chapter introduces the phenomenological tradition through the philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Phenomenology problematizes positivism and sees all knowledge as grounded in the everyday life experiences. Building from this tradition, phenomenological methods can be used to capture and communicate the meanings of different entrepreneurial experiences. Such an approach allows for a deeper understanding of how theoretical concepts and empirical events are understood and translated into action by entrepreneurs.
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...In modern philosophical discussions, however, the question is often central, and many contemporary social theories such as social constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966) and structuration theory (Giddens 1984) draw explicitly on the phenomenological tradition in addressing it....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on emergence in social systems and propose a new tool to explore the mechanisms of social emergence: multi agent-based computer simulation, which they use to resolve the competing claims of methodological individualists and social realists.
Abstract: This article focuses on emergence in social systems. The author begins by proposing a new tool to explore the mechanisms of social emergence: multi agent–based computer simulation. He then draws on philosophy of mind to develop an account of social emergence that raises potential problems for the methodological individualism of both social mechanism and of multi agent simulation. He then draws on various complexity concepts to propose a set of criteria whereby one can determine whether a given social mechanism generates emergent properties, in the sense that their explanation cannot be reduced to a mechanistic account of individuals and their interactions. This combined account helps to resolve the competing claims of methodological individualists and social realists. The author’s conclusion is that the scope of mechanistic explanation may be limited due to the extreme complexity of many social systems.
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