Structuration

that social structure is what determines social action and behavior for the rest of an individual’s life. The best solution to the issue of structure versus agency can be found in Giddens The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. The reason that Giddens analysis of the structure versus agency is the best solution is that Giddens acknowledges the duality of structure (Giddens 1-37). The duality of structures basically means that social structures are both enabling and…

hormic psychology, which influenced him to pursue a Masters degree and a PhD in the United States at Harvard. Throughout his years in graduate school, Sherif widened his interests towards other areas in social sciences by focusing more on social structuration and experimental studies, due to the influences of the Great Depression taking place at the time. Once Muzafer completed his Masters, he began planning out a theory…

However, journalists’ willingness to interact online with the audience changed toward increased interaction compared to prior studies (Larsson, Understanding nonuse of interactivity in online newspapers: Insights from structuration theory, 2012). Yet, community journalism has a distinct relationship with its audience as compared to other publications (Reader, Community journalism: A concept of connectedness., 2012). Therefore, the question remains since community news has…

structure and agency are mutually constituted (Giddens 1984). The dissertation, in fact, elucidated the structuration process of the agencies; despite Beheiren and the JRA’s very different path for developing the idea of ethnic minority politics, eventually, the form and method to promote this issue has been structured in the same way to a non-violent and democratic form. And this structuration process of the new social movements is not only the Japanese Sixties but more or less the same with…

Studying social behavior has always been an issue for scholars in social sciences field. This is not because they have not enough knowledge or experience. One of the main reasons is because society changes, and keeping the same sociological methods to study society and its entities might end up not being appropriate. Anthony Giddens (1993) in his book New Rules of Sociological methods, Giddens critics the use of sociological methods to study human behaviors. Indeed, he argues, “The social world,…

Shear-induced particle migration in noncolloidal suspensions: Review article Daniel Galvez-Moreno a) Missouri University of Science and Technology, 219 Butler-Carlton Hall, 1401 N. Pine St., Rolla, MO 65409, USA. Synopsis INTRODUCTION Noncolloidal suspensions are composed by a liquid and a solid phase, which the latter is constituted by particles where Brownian motion, repulsion/attraction forces and Van Der Waals bonds are often negligible [1]. Nowadays, the success of many industrial…

Theoretical Framework For Nursing Practice Unit 1 – Introduction to Theory Learning Activities 1. According to Chinn & Jacobs, there are several meanings of nursing theories as shown below (Meleis, 2007): 1.1 Theory base on structuration – according to Anthony Giddens, the social structure and its relationship with one another forms a theory when a certain action or ideas are reproduced or repeated such as culture, traditions, religion, morality, learning forms a theory or a social structure…

In order to solidify the concept of conformity I am going to discuss a study that was conducted by Reitan and Shaw, which discussed conformity by examining attributes such as the individual’s personality, the kind of stimuli that evokes an individual to confirm, the situational factors and examining intragroup relationships. The individual personality factor that was examined in Reitan and Shaw’s study was group membership, which essentially stated that individuals that belongs to a multitude of…

Literature Review – Theoretical Approaches The proposed research adopts translocational positionality as a theoretical framework to examine the versatility of multi-cultural individuals, especially in an ethnoculturally diverse setting, and their care seeking behaviour in the use of CAM. Translocational positionality as a theoretical concept is conceived as a “placement within a set of relations and practices that implicate identification and performativity or action” (Anthias, 2002b p.501).…

This essay applies the lens of hermeneutics and actor-network theory (ANT) to analyze a picked scene from the movie HER, which was directed by Spike Jonze in 2013, in order to understand the relationship between humans and technology. In the film, the main character Theodore works as a letter-author. He is on the verge of divorce with his wife, Catherine. Technology provides him a more colorful living environment that he needs especially under his situation. Sadness and anti-social, to him,…