The Accidental Derogation of the Lay Actor: A Critique of Giddens’s Concept of Structure  

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King, Anthony

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 30 no. 3 (Sep. 2000), page 362-383.
Fulltext: 362PSS303.pdf (81.78KB)

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The concept of structure is central to Giddens’s structuration theory because it apparently accounts for the reproduction of the social system without derogating the lay actor in functionalist or structuralist fashion. In fact, the concept of structure involves the very derogation of the lay actor which Giddens highlights as the principal error of these objectivist social theories and which he wishes to avoid. However, although Giddens fails to recognize it, the concept of “practical consciousness” which Giddens also regards as central to structuration theory avoids this relapse into objectivism and offers a route to a sustainable social theory which highlights the agency of social actors.

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