Podmiot i struktura społeczna w teorii A. Giddensa – rekonstrukcja i krytyka

Giddens constructed the sociological theory using the legacy of sociological thought. Since the mid 1970’s this sociologist has elaborated his very concept of the “duality of structure” which sounded very illuminating. Multiplicity of theoretical orientations, which had been the subject of an analytical processing, became the departure point for drawing up a new theoretical system. The cognitive value of the concept system proposed by A. Giddens is significant. The originality of Gidden’s decisionsand the theoretical identity in the assumptions that specify the structure, in a way emphasized by the creator of the structuration theory, certainly directs critics’ interest to the agreements concerning the acting subject. Quite often, they make their position more precise after following through the continuity and changes of A. Giddens’ thoughts presented in his later works.