June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
17h 8m
English
With an overview of Giddens’ structuration theory in mind, I now turn to a more thorough discussion of his views on agency, action and interaction and their implications for organizing and communicating. In particular, I will look at modernity as the context in which organizing and communicating take place. Through distanciation, disembedding, re-embedding, and communication and transportation advances, new forms of organizing and communicating are possible. In addition, I will discuss the challenges of interaction, agency, and the self in modern times, particularly in terms of identity, uncertainty and risk.
In discussing modernity, Giddens argued that the pace ...