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: Although the agent-structure problem has been the subject of intense debate within International Relations, the focus has been on epistemological problems or reconceptualizations of structure as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Although the agent-structure problem has been the subject of intense debate within International Relations the focus has been on epistemological problems or reconceptualizations of structure. This ...
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TL;DR: The authors studied the visual, verbal and visual-verbal communication on the home pages of three English-language online newspapers from different national cultures and identified important similarities in the visualverbal structure of news stories and home pages.
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TL;DR: Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in sociology that addresses the manner in which society is created and maintained through face-to-face, repeated, meaningful interactions among people as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Symbolic interactionism is a theoretical perspective in sociology that addresses the manner in which society is created and maintained through face-to-face, repeated, meaningful interactions among ...
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...Work on micro–macro connections in recent decades can be seen in the work of Bourdieu (1977), Habermas (1984), and Giddens (1984)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review reasserts field research's discovery epistemology, emphasizing that discovery-oriented research practice occupies a minority position in the study of organization and management.
Abstract: This review reasserts field research's discovery epistemology. While it occupies a minority position in the study of organization and management, discovery-oriented research practice has a long tra...
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...drew on “Tompkins and Cheney’s (1985), Giddens’ (1984), and Weber’s (1978) theories of value-based control and constitutive rules” (Barker 1993:...
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...For example, Orlikowski and Yates took advantage of their different theoretical biographies to bring together structuration perspectives from sociological theory (Giddens, 1984) with rhetorical perspectives from literary theory (e....
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