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Ira Cohen interweaves a detailed study of Anthony Giddens' writings on structuration theory with independent arguments and original concepts to provide a comprehensive analysis of structuration theory's new approach to the subject matter of the social sciences. Cohen clarifies the ontological status of structuration theory, and emphasizes the centrality of social praxis to Giddens' thought. He includes a critique of social morphology, illuminating structuration theory's concern for the reproduction and articulation of social systems across time and space. Giddens' insightsinto system reproduction, power and domination, and social structure are clarified, criticized and extended.

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20255-3

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Introduction

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Structuration theory and social praxis

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9-55

Latter-day morphology and social praxis

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56-83

The patterning and articulation of systems across time and space

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84-113

The organisation of social systems

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114-147

Administered systems

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148-196

Structure, position-practices, and enablement/constraint

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197-231

Structural analysis, societies, societal change

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232-278

Closing remarks

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279-288