ABSTRACT
Anthony Giddens, one of the most famous contemporary sociologists, taught at Cambridge University and was at the head of the London School of Economics before retiring from academic teaching. He adds that the study of sociology should make use of sociological imagination, that is to say, it should focus on history, anthropology, and critical theory, the latter in the sense of asking ourselves what social changes are desirable and how is it possible to achieve them. By the term 'structuration', Giddens intends the set of conditions on which depend not only the continuity or change of the rules and the constitutive resources of a social structure but also the reproduction of the social systems. The theory of structuration is included in a larger conceptual and theoretical apparatus. Giddens dwells on the institutional elements that are present in any society and can be of a symbolic, political, economic or legal nature.
