##  [Structuration Theory](/index.php/structuration-theory) 

  ##  [Structuration Theory](https://social.quantumdictionary.io/structuration-theory-0) 

  

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Definition

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.

 

 

 

 

 





 

 



 ##  [Structuration Theory](https://information.quantumdictionary.io/structuration-theory-1) 

  

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Definition

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).