Chapter 15 Learning ObjectivesAfter reading this chapter, students should be able to:
- define the main elements of structuration theory, including practice, the double hermeneutic, social structure, agency, time, and space;
- describe Margaret Archer's criticisms of agency-structure theory and her alternative;
- define habitus and field;
- apply Pierre Bourdieu's ideas about agency-structure integration to tastes and academia;
- define system and life-world;
- discuss the colonization of the life-world;
- offer criticisms of Anthony Giddens, Margaret Archer, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jurgen Habermas;
- compare and contrast these perspectives on their views of actors and their meanings of structures, and the linkages between the two; and
- compare and contrast micro-macro and structure-agency theory.
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