The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
1 Elements of the Theory of Structuration......Page 39
The Agent, Agency......Page 43
Agency and Power......Page 52
Structure, Structuration......Page 54
The Duality of Structure......Page 63
Forms of Institution......Page 66
Time, the Body, Encounters......Page 72
Reflexivity, Discursive and Practical Consciousness......Page 79
The Unconscious, Time, Memory......Page 83
Erikson: Anxiety and Trust......Page 89
Roulinization and Motivation......Page 98
Presence, Co-Presence and Social Integration......Page 102
Goffman: Encounters and Routines......Page 106
Seriality......Page 111
Talk, Reflexivity......Page 116
Positioning......Page 121
Critical Notes: Freud on Slips of the Tongue......Page 131
Time-Geography......Page 148
Critical Comments......Page 154
Modes of Regionalization......Page 157
Front Regions. Back Regions......Page 160
Disclosure and Self......Page 164
Regionalizarion as Generic......Page 167
Time, Space, Context......Page 170
Against 'Micro' and 'Macro': Social and System Integration......Page 177
Critical Notes: Foucault on Timing and Spacing......Page 183
4 Structure, System, Social Reproduction......Page 200
Societies, Social Systems......Page 201
Structure and Constraint: Durkheim and Others......Page 207
Three Senses of "Constraint'......Page 212
Constraint and Reification......Page 217
The Concept of Structural Principles......Page 218
Structures, Structural Properties......Page 223
Contradiction......Page 231
Making History......Page 237
Blau: a Version of Structural Sociology......Page 245
An Alternative? Methodological Individualism......Page 251
5 Change, Evolution and Power......Page 265
Evolutionism and Social Theory......Page 266
Adaptation......Page 271
Evolution and History......Page 274
Analysing Social Change......Page 282
Change and Power......Page 294
Critical Notes: Parsons on Evolution......Page 301
A Reiteration of Basic Concepts......Page 319
The Analysis of Strategic Conduct......Page 326
Unintended Consequences: Against Functionalism......Page 331
The Duality of Structure......Page 335
The Problem of Structural Constraint......Page 342
Contradiction and the Empirical Study of Conflict......Page 348
Institutional Stability and Change......Page 357
Drawing Together the Threads: Structuration Theory and Forms of Research......Page 365
Mutual Knowledge versus Common Sense......Page 372
Generalizations in Social Science......Page 381
The Practical Connotations of Social Science......Page 385
Critical Notes: Social Science. History and Geography......Page 393
Glossary......Page 411
Bibliography......Page 417
Index......Page 430