Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Anthony Giddens thinks that sociologists have historically underestimated the ways structures operate as constraints.
2. Anthony Giddens places greater emphasis on systems that emerge from intended rather than unintended actions.
3. According to Anthony Giddens, structure and agency are a duality; neither can exist without the other.
4. Time and space are crucial variables in Anthony Giddens’s structuration theory
5. Anthony Giddens claims the impacts of modernity are the most pressing social problem that is need of study.


1. false
2. false
3. false
4. true
5. true

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