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... practices and as a result came to be defined , and to define herself , as a woman . Garfinkel was interested in the passing practices that allowed Agnes to function like a woman in society . The more general point here is that we are ...
... practices and as a result came to be defined , and to define herself , as a woman . Garfinkel was interested in the passing practices that allowed Agnes to function like a woman in society . The more general point here is that we are ...
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... practices . Thus , to structuration theory , the focus is neither on large - scale structures nor everyday actions and interactions , but social practices that recur in a patterned way . As in much of his theory , time and space are sig ...
... practices . Thus , to structuration theory , the focus is neither on large - scale structures nor everyday actions and interactions , but social practices that recur in a patterned way . As in much of his theory , time and space are sig ...
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... practices . The idea of social system is derived from Giddens's fo- cal concern with practice . Social systems do not have structures , but they do ex- hibit structural properties . Structures do not themselves exist in time and space ...
... practices . The idea of social system is derived from Giddens's fo- cal concern with practice . Social systems do not have structures , but they do ex- hibit structural properties . Structures do not themselves exist in time and space ...
Contents
Classical Grand Theories | 13 |
Classical Theories of Everyday Life | 42 |
Contemporary Theoretical Portraits of the Social World 1755 | 75 |
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