This thinker argued that actions are carried out with three levels of social consciousness: self-aware "discursive consciousness," cognizant but inarticulate "practical consciousness," and "the unconscious."
This thinker argued that actions are carried out with three levels of social consciousness: self-aware "discursive consciousness," cognizant but inarticulate "practical consciousness," and "the unconscious." That tripartite division forms a basis for his "stratification model" of action. This author of Runaway World takes a "discontinuist" approach to comparing traditional and modern social orders in a book that discusses the radicalization of (*) modernity. This sociologist described the relationship between the social sciences and their objects of study as a "double hermeneutic." This author of The Consequences of Modernity reconciled structural and agential theories by describing a "duality of structure" in The Constitution of Society. In books such as Beyond Left and Right, this sociologist developed a center-left "Third Way" in politics that was adopted by Tony Blair. For 10 points, name this British sociologist who developed the theory of structuration and wrote New Rules of Sociological Method.
This thinker argued that actions are carried out with three levels of social consciousness: self-aware "discursive consciousness," cognizant but inarticulate "practical consciousness," and "the unconscious."
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens