A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

By Stable Url. 2007

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Subfields: Anthropology, History and Philosophy of Science

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MNE institutional advantage: How subunits shape, transpose and evade host country institutions (2014, background): “…limited to) the ability to see beyond current normative and cognitive constraints (Bourdieu, 1977, 1990; Emirbayer & Mische, 1998; Giddens, 1976; Sewell, 1992), heterogeneous pressure for conformity (Leblebici et al., 1991; Zuckerman, 1999), and access to particular capabilities, assets,…”
Jules or Jim: Alternative Conformity to Minority Logics (2012, background): “Resources are attached to logics of action and a corresponding institutional order (Sewell, 1992), and organizations that have adhered the most to dominant logic holders’ demands partake in their establishment and share their values and interests.”
Access to Mathematics: “A Possessive Investment in Whiteness”1 (2013, background): “Sewell (1992), in his analysis of this dialectic relationship, explains that it [m]ust be true that schemas are the effects of resources, just as resources are the effect of schemas. . . .”
Lifestyle Practices and Proenvironmental Technology (2012, methodology): “For example, practice theory has been utilized to explain the co-evolution of air-conditioning and food refrigeration with increasing cultural standards and expectations of comfort (Shove, 2004).”
Looking Back to Look Forward (2005, background): “Although some structures are more deeply embedded than others, structures form no tightly coherent whole, and some can be used as leverage against others (Sewell 1992).”