社会理论的邀请

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• Previous social theories are seen by structurationists as privileging one of these dimensions over the other. Marxism and functionalist theory overly focuses on how social systems reproduce themselves, regarding individual actors as mere ‘cultural dopes’ who carry out actions and interactions which the social system requires them to do. These sorts of theories are seen as putting too much stress on social reproduction, at the expense of social transformation. They do so because they start with unsatisfactory concepts of ‘society’ and ‘social structure’, and then deduce how these allegedly dictate what individuals do. On the other hand, various kinds of micro-sociologies, including Weberian action theory, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, and Rational Choice Theory are seen as ... (查看原文)

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• Structuration theory therefore seeks to overcome what it sees as the failings of earlier social theory, avoiding both its ‘objectivist’ and ‘subjectivist’ extremes, seeking to overcome these by forging a new terminology to describe how people both create and are created by social order, and how the interacting activities of individuals leads to both social reproduction and transformation. The very word ‘structuration’ attempts to indicate that the things conventionally referred to by the words (social) ‘structure’ and (individual) ‘action’ are not separate entities, but in fact elements of one single process, the ‘constitution of society’, as Giddens (1984) puts it. (查看原文)

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