The constitution of society : outline of the theory of structuration

Elements of the theory of structuration. The agent, agency ; Agency and power ; Structure, structuration ; The duality of structure ; Forms of institution ; Time, the body, encounters

Consciousness, self and social encounters. Reflexivity, discursive and practical consciousness ; The unconscious, time, memory ; Erikson : anxiety and trust ; Routinization and motivation ; Presence, co-presence and social integration ; Goffman : encounters and routines ; Seriality ; Talk, reflexivity ; Positioning ; Critical notes: Freud on slips of the tongue

Time, space and regionalization. Time-geography ; Critical comments ; Modes of regionalization ; Front regions, back regions ; Disclosure and self ; Regionalization as generic ; Time, space, context ; Against 'micro' and 'macro' : social and system integration ; Critical notes: Foucault on timing and spacing

Structure, system, social reproduction. Societies, social systems ; Structure and constraint : Durkheim and others ; Three senses of 'constraint' ; Constraint and reification ; The concept of structural principles ; Structures, structural properties ; Contradiction ; Making history ; Critical notes: 'Structural sociology' and methodological individualism ; Blau : a version of structural sociology ; An alternative? Methodological individualism

Change, evolution and power. Evolutionism and social theory ; Adaptation ; Evolution and history ; Analysing social change ; Change and power ; Critical notes: Parsons on evolution

Structuration theory, empirical research and social critique. A reiteration of basic concepts ; The analysis of strategic conduct ; Unintended consequences : against functionalism ; The duality of structure ; The problem of structural constraint ; Contradiction and the empirical study of conflict ; Institutional stability and change ; Drawing together the threads : structuration theory and forms of research

Mutual knowledge versus common sense

Generalizations in social science

The practical connotations of social science

Critical notes: Social science, history and geography