SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Doxa, Social Actions, Structuration Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Science and art of terms and conceptual grasp: micro/macro individuals/structures, agency/structure. Agency and structure: giddens" theory of structuration social practices ordered across space and time, social action is a continuous flow of conduct , social activities, like some self-reproducing items in nature, are recursive. Giddens" theory of structuration: from myriad of ways of acting social action is recursive practices recur (reoccur, social actions are not brought into being each time, social actions are continually produced and reproduced. Individuals highly sophisticated, knowledgeable agents: discursive consciousness (explain their actions) and practical consciousness (simply know how to go on, knowledge is not contingent upon action (not after the fact) it structures, . Shapes, constitutes action (exists before the act: knowledge enables and constrains action. Duality of structure: enable and constrain, formulated rules (shallow, discursive, formalized, strongly sanctioned, non-formulated (informal) rules (intensive, tacit, informal and weakly sanctioned rules)