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Agency, structure
pp. 49-95
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.1
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Giddens Anthony (1979) Central problems in social theory: action, structure and contradiction in social analysis. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 49-95
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16161-4_3
Full citation:
Giddens Anthony (1979) Agency, structure, In: Central problems in social theory, Dordrecht, Springer, 49–95.