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Social theory of modern societies: A reply to my critics
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The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 118 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social theory & Social movement.read more
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Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose an extension to the structurational perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices, enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that technology.
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Home, Home Ownership and the Search for Ontological Security:
Ann Dupuis,David C. Thorns +1 more
TL;DR: The notion that the home can provide a locale in which people can work at attaining a sense of ontological security in a world that at times is experienced as threatening and uncontrollable is explored in this article.
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People can talk about their practices
TL;DR: The authors consider the value of using interviews to research routine practices and conclude that people can often talk in quite revealing ways about actions they may usually take as a matter of course and offer suggestions about how to encourage them.
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Challenges in Conducting Empirical Work Using Structuration Theory: Learning from IT Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify patterns of use of Giddens's theory in publications in the domain of IT, and then describe how IT researchers have attempted to address its major empirical challenges.
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Institutions and Individuals: Interaction and Evolution
TL;DR: In this paper, a concept of habit derived from pragmatism and Veblenian institutional economics is proposed to describe the process of habituation in an organization, where institutional circumstances may affect individual preferences.