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# Anthony Giddens # | # Anthony Giddens # | ||
- | Anthony Giddens is an influential theorist of society most known for his theories of society in terms of a circular relationship between structure and agency. For Giddens, the classical paradigm of social science first articulated by [[Emile Durkheim]] always lacked a way of explaining the effects of individual actions. And yet, every individual, to some extent, possesses agency, a capacity to act, and without this agency, there would be no one to participate in society and keep it going (1979). Hence, an explanation of institutions just in terms of " | + | Anthony Giddens is an influential theorist of society most known for his concept |
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———. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. London: Polity Press. | ———. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. London: Polity Press. | ||
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