Explain Giddens’s duality of structure.
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Giddens defines rules as shared (i.e., collective) recipes of know-how that enable individuals to meaningfully navigate their everyday lives. As generalized procedures for “getting on,” rules are not the creation or “property” of isolated individuals. Instead, their existence transcends individuals, as we are born into a culture whose rules and procedures for making sense of the world predate our birth. Yet, these recipes do not exist outside of their use by individuals; they exist only insofar as people apply them. Insofar as rules are not of our own making they constrain our ability to act: we are not free to make up the rules that guide our everyday conduct, instead we follow preexisting rules. At the same time, however, rules are enabling because they
provide us with the shared know-how and guidelines that make coordinated social action possible.
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a. Their immigration increased due to higher quota by the national origins system. b. Mutual aid societies were set up to provide basic social services for them. c. Education was still not valued by them as a means of upward mobility. d. Becoming more educated helped ward off prejudice toward them.
Outline and define Baudrillard’s two most important contributions to postmodern theory.
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_____ involves mentally observing one's own and one's partner's sexual performance
A) Chafing B) Serosorting C) Spectatoring D) Felching
Crime and deviance are functional when they
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