Learning Objectives
define the main elements of structuration theory, including practice, the double hermeneutic, social structure, agency, time, and space; |
describe Margaret Archer's criticisms of agency-structure theory and her alternative; |
define habitus and field; |
apply Pierre Bourdieu's ideas about agency-structure integration to tastes and academia; |
define system and life-world; |
discuss the colonization of the life-world; |
offer criticisms of Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jurgen Habermas; |
compare and contrast these perspectives on their views of actors and their meanings of structures, and the linkages between the two; and |
compare and contrast micro-macro and structure-agency theory. |
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