SOCY 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter na: Structuration Theory

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

Document Summary

Human agents can reason out and explain their actions and motivations. Agents cannot fully reason out and explain why or what they are doing. That practical knowledge is limited by one"s surroundings. Formal: rules that people know and acknowledge (ex, the law, school. Formal: rules that people know and acknowledge (ex, the law, school rules) Informal or non-formulated: everyday rules of social conduct. Reflectively assess one"s actions and adjust them to better achieve their desired objectives or respond to unforeseen circumstances, processes, responses or outcomes. Power is the ability to influence the actions of others. A setting in which agents and their social positions are located. The position of each particular agent in the field is a result of interaction between the specific rules of the field, agent"s habitus and agent"s capital (social, economic and cultural) Fields interact with each other and are hierarchical--> most are subordinate to the larger field of power and class relations.