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structuration  

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  • Structuration theory, which is associated with the work of Anthony Giddens, centres on the way agents produce and reproduce social structure through their own actions. Structuration offers a way to understand human social and cultural activity as involving both agency and structure. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Cultural Studies; Structuration]

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