: Ltheny- Giddens C Shyuc A prominent scholor & British sociologist Anthony Giddens, who developed the concept of Structuration. *Structuration theory attempts to understand human social behaviour by resalvig the competing viewsof structure-agency & macro: micro perspective. + This is achieved by studying the processes thot take place at the interface between the actor ond the structure. Introduction Scanned with CamScAgency, as Giddens calts it, is human action- + Agency Is critical to both the reproduction ond the transformation of society. Another way 0 exploin this concept is by what Giddens calls the “reflexive monitoring of actions.” * “Reflexive monitoring" refers to agents’ abit to monitor their actions and those actions’ settings and contexts. Monitoring is an essentl characteristic of agency. a mad Agency & Society ? Scanned with CamSc>The term structure referred generally to “rules ond resources” and more specifically to “the, of Structuring properties allowing the ‘binding time-space in social systems”. Giddens uses “the duality of structure” to emphasize structure's nature as both medium and outcome. he <> Social structures contain agents and of are nou product of past actions of agents. Giddens ™m." this duality, alongside “structure” and “system, as the core of structuration theory. ( ”? Duality of Structure Scanned with CamSc“* Structuration means studying the ways in which social systems are produced and reproduced in social interacton. «Giddens defines structuratian as “th structuring of social relations across e time and space, in virtue of the duality of str ucture”. e& Structuration is a processes, modify, developed by the actor. Structuration Scanned with CamSc