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Structure / Agency conudrum
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Structure
- =CONTEXT that exhibits certain regularities
- Context = how things are set up
- Repetition
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Hidden Structure (Invisible)
- i.e. Power
- Individuals (agents) bearers of the structure = cannot do anything - they replicate the structure
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Characteristics
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In depth ontology
- not just what we see
- System based analysis
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Synchrony
- every single constituent has a role
- looking at the bigger picture and understanding those roles
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Determinism
- predictability
- Structuralism = Science
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LImitations
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the direction of causality
- starting from A to B or B to A (which way?)
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Determinism
- predicting the future - which elements?
- Agents to change the system (today)
- Legitimacy Problem = subject object problem
- who are those deciding
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Examples
- Dependency Theory
- Hyper Globalisation Theory
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Agency
- = Conduct
- Actors / Players
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REFELXIVITY
- ability to evaluate the course of our actions
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Motivation and Intention
- regarding or disregarding rules
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Downplays the importance of structures
- voter's behaviour
- meritocracy = work hard to become rich
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Personality of certain People
- i.e. Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussain
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Examples
- Rational Choice / Neo Classical Economics?
- Pluralism
- Public Choice
- Idealism
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Dialectical Approaches
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Mutually Constitutive
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Structuration Giddens
- Duality of Structure
- Coin analogy
- Bracketing Off
- Structuration
- Critique
- Not a new way but neoliberlism with a human face
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Strategic Relational Apporach
- map figure 3.1. (insert pic)
- Constructivism
- Identity matters
- Multiple Realities (constructed by individuals)
- Interest = social construction
- Intra and Inter-subjectivity
- Role of Ideas
- strategic w/o utility
- appropriating of the context
- Structure = Context
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Morphogenetic approach
- Structure comes first
- Changes of structure postdate action
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Archer (1996) picture
- Structural Conditioning
- Social Interaction
- Structural elaboration
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Material / Ideational
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Ideational
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Turner
- Peripheral Concepts
- Adjacentet Concepts
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Material
- Vehicle to restore / preserve class power
- Liberalism as a PROJECT
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Ideational-Material
- Neo Gramscian
- Cox
- Material-Ideational
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Definition
- Dependent on the analytical lenses
- Associated with Washington Consensus