ANTHONY GIDDENS
STRUCTURATION THEORY
Individuals are not entirely
free to make choices, and their
knowledge is limited.
However, human agency
impacts social structure in
ways that lead to change.
Structure provides common
frames of meaning that enable
agency.
Agency and structure cannot
be analyze separately as the
causality of change runs from
both directions.
PIERRE BOURDIEUS
THEORY OF PRACTICE
Structure and agency are not monolithic or dichotomous,
but they engage in ever evolving and transformative
dialectical processes.
An agent is embedded in a social field in which social,
cultural, and economic capital impact ever changing
sets of roles, relationships, and expectations.
Habitus--a habitual way of being and becoming--forms
over time as the agent negotiates their field, and
internalizes roles, relationships, and expectations.
Structure is internalized as habitus, while--at the same
time--the agent externalizes actions that impact roles,
relations, and expectation in the social field.
DRAMATURGY
Interpretive/symbolic interactionists analyze individuals and
social interactions as involving a series of theatrical
performances.
AUDIENCE: The observers.
ROLES: The actors.
SCRIPT: Communication.
PROPS: Objects that convey actors identities and
relations of power.
Social environments have FRONT STAGES where actors
maintain their impressions, and BACK STAGES, where
they have some freedom from maintaining impression
management can be more casual and let their hair down.
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