Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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...Practice theory draws from the work of a number of social theorists (Bourdieu, 1977 , 1990 ; Giddens, 1984 ), each of whom describe how everyday practices are accomplished, reinforced, or changed (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011 )....
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...Structuration theory (Giddens, 1984) offers a solution to the dualism of structure versus agency, by positing that the “structural properties of social systems are both medium and outcome of the practices they recursively organise”....
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...3 Yet, specific incidences of practising even institutionalized practices are never exactly the same (Connell, 1987; Giddens, 1984; Martin, 2004)....
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...An institutionalized practice is defined as one that is widely known and enacted over an extensive period of time across expansive geographical and social space (Giddens, 1984; Martin, 2004)....
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...This point underscores the centrality of practising to gender’s perpetuation in workplaces and other arenas of social life (Connell, 1987; Giddens, 1984)....
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