Agency, Structure

1 January 1979

book chapter
Published by Bloomsbury Academic

p. 49-95
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16161-4_3

Abstract

The principal issue with which I shall be concerned in this paper is that of connecting a notion of human action with structural explanation in social analysis. The making of such a connection, I shall argue, demands the following: a theory of the human agent, or of the subject; an account of the conditions and consequences of action; and an interpretation of ‘structure’ as somehow embroiled in both those conditions and consequences.¹

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