Giddens (and Risman) believe that the individual must be brought into structural theories. They mean by this that
a. we must treat actors as reflexive; we must understand their thinking is influenced by structure.
b. we need to analyze personality as well as structure.
c. we need to understand how structure prevents individuals from thinking.
d. we need to show that structure is really an imaginary reality.
A
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a) open-ended questions
b) unstructured
c) unfair
d) closed-ended question
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