Structuration Theory

A theoretical account that conceives social structures and human agency as recursively related: structures both enable and constrain action while being reproduced and transformed through ongoing practices; social life consists of routinized practices that instantiate rules and resources which agents draw upon and modify.

A social theory that conceptualizes social structures as both the medium and the outcome of recurrent human practices: rules and resources enable and constrain actions while being produced and reproduced through those same actions (the duality of structure).