Which of Giddens’s major concepts sits dead-center within the authors’ figure of theoretical orientation pertaining to order and action?

a. practical consciousness
b. agency
c. duality of structure
d. resources


c. duality of structure

Sociology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.

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Which of the following concepts highlights a view never knowing anything because all forms of knowledge lacks a foundation, is relativistic, irrational, and nihilistic?

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Sociology