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Agency, Structure

  • Giddens A
Macmillan Education UK, (1979), 49-95
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16161-4_3
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Abstract

The principal issue with which I shall be concerned in this paper is that of connecting a notion of human action with structural explanation in social analysis. The making of such a connection, I shall argue, demands the following: a theory of the human agent, or of the subject; an account of the conditions and consequences of action; and an interpretation of ‘structure’ as somehow embroiled in both those conditions and consequences.

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Giddens, A. (1979). Agency, Structure. In Central Problems in Social Theory (pp. 49–95). Macmillan Education UK. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16161-4_3

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