Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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...Dialectical reasoning pervades many other theories of social behavior, including the metatheoretical framework of structuration theory (Giddens 1984)....
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...Considerable attempts have been made to understand the complexities, diversity and regularities of patterns of interaction between individuals and social structure (Giddens, 1984; Douglas, 1987; Granovetter, 1992; Long, 1992; Goetz, 1996, etc.)....
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...…little recognize that in examining motivation it is helpful to see a person positioned in multiple ways with social relations conferred by specific social identities (Giddens, 1984) and that in Long's words; individuals are only ever partly enrolled in the projects of others (Long, 1992)....
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...Functional project approaches to participation little recognize that in examining motivation it is helpful to see a person positioned in multiple ways with social relations conferred by specific social identities (Giddens, 1984) and that in Long's words; individuals are only ever partly enrolled in the projects of others (Long, 1992)....
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...We need to better understand the non-project nature of people's lives, the complex livelihood inter-linkages that make an impact in one area likely to be felt in others and the potential for unintended consequences arising from any intended intervention or act (Giddens, 1984; Long, 1992)....
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...American Journal of Sociology threads in previous work by linking them to clear cognitive mechanisms and thereby improve our understanding of the culture-action link....
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...American Journal of Sociology approach to cognition from two different directions....
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...It appears that the vast majority of individuals, living as they do in a world that is not continuously narrated in theoretical terms, rely on practical consciousness for most of their decisions (Giddens 1984)....
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...Just as Swidler’s essay was published in the American Sociological Review, social movement scholars, for example, were moving away from the idea of ideological motivation toward a notion of “framing” as persuasive social practice (e.g., Snow et al. 1986)....
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...Systems and structures are nothing more than the habitual practices of the people involved in the system, or what Giddens (1984) calls recursive practices....
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