ABSTRACT
In more recent versions of social theory, there have been new attempts to move beyond either ‘action approaches’ or ‘structural analysis’. Considering anew the issue of how the actions of individual agents are related to the structural features of the society from which they spring, social theorists have sought to consider in more detailed ways how action and structure actually presuppose one another. As we will see throughout this chapter, this means that social scientists must seek to provide an account of the conditions and consequences of action as directly embroiled with structure.
