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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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Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy
Colin Jerolmack,Shamus Khan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that many interview and survey researchers routinely conflate self-reports with behavior and assume a consistency between attitudes and action, and call this erroneous inference of situated behavior from verbal accounts the attitudinal fallacy.
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Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice
Robert Chia,Brad MacKay +1 more
TL;DR: The recent turn to "strategy practice" offers a genuine opportunity for establishing an alternative perspective that is clearly distinct from the traditional strategy process view as discussed by the authors, and the challenge is to clarify and articulate an alternative set of ontological and epistemological premises for founding this new approach to theorizing strategy.
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Keeping energy visible? Exploring how householders interact with feedback from smart energy monitors in the longer term
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on how, over a 12-month period, UK householders interacted with feedback on their domestic electricity consumption in a field trial of real-time displays or smart energy monitors.
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Perspectives on Innovation in Organizations
TL;DR: The authors map out the literature on innovation in organizations in terms of three theoretical perspectives, referred to as the individualist perspective, the structuralist perspective and the interactive process perspective, and provide the reader with a framework both for organizing this voluminous literature, and for understanding the key theoretical and methodological differences that are evident within this field.
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"The policy exists but you can't really use it": communication and the structuration of work-family policies
Erika L. Kirby,Kathleen J. Krone +1 more
TL;DR: The authors apply Giddens' (1984) Structuration Theory to examine organizational members' discursive responses to conditions (and contradictions) present in utilizing work-family benefits in a governmental organization.
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