According to Giddens’ structuration theory what constitutes the ‘structure’ ?
Rules and Resources
Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory (The Constitution of Society, 1984) overcomes the agency–structure dualism through the ‘duality of structure’: structure is both the medium and the outcome of the practices it organises.
Giddens defines structure specifically as rules and resources recursively implicated in the reproduction of social systems. Rules are procedures of action (meaning and normative sanction); resources are allocative (control over material goods) and authoritative (control over people).
Values and norms are the core of Parsons’ normative functionalism; statuses and roles belong to the structural-functional vocabulary of Linton and Parsons; actors and interactions describe the agency side studied by interactionists, not structure as Giddens defines it.
Hence, the answer is Rules and Resources.
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