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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
Alan Sica,Anthony Giddens +1 more
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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.read more
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New Regionalism Reconsidered: Globalization and the Remaking of Political Economic Space
TL;DR: In this article, a series of future theoretical directions for a geopolitically sensitive regional research agenda, drawing on recent thinking from the new regional geography, globalization and the politics of scale, institutional-relational state theory and the regulation approach, are presented.
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Transnational Entrepreneurship: An Emergent Field of Study
TL;DR: Transnational entrepreneurship (TE) research has been studied from a variety of perspectives: agency, institutional, cultural, power relations, and social capital and networks as discussed by the authors, with a focus on the exploitation of resources, both social and economic, in more than one country.
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Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements*:
TL;DR: This paper argued that the view of society and power underlying the political process model is too narrow to encompass the diversity of contemporary change efforts, and they examined the conceptions of social movements, politics, actors, goals, and strategies supported by each model.
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Middle managers and strategy: Microdynamics of inclusion
TL;DR: The role of middle management in strategic processes in bureaucratic organizations is examined in this article, where the authors argue that managers may either be excluded or included in such "strategic conversations", but inclusion does not guarantee satisfaction.
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Power in Transition: An Interdisciplinary Framework to Study Power in Relation to Structural Change
Flor Avelino,Jan Rotmans +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a typology of different ways in which power can be exercised, explicitly including innovative power and transformative power, is presented, and applied to transition studies, redefining pivotal transition concepts in terms of power and formulating hypotheses on the role of power in transitions.
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