ABSTRACT
According to G. Ritzer, Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory offers “perhaps the best known and the most articulated effort to integrate micro and macro concerns”. Structuration theory, therefore, provides the theoretical framework for the analysis of green industry. The need for the integration of social and natural sciences in the analysis of environmental issues is supported by L. Martell. In order to overcome the perceived inadequacies of existing social theories, Giddens has developed an approach to social analysis known as ‘structuration theory’. Based on the literature review and the outline of Giddens’ theory of structuration, there appear to be a number of aspects of this theory which have relevance to environmental sociology in general and to this study in particular. In structuration theory, structures are seen as factors which both constrain and facilitate human behaviour. P. Dickens highlights another important aspect of Giddens’ structuration theory which has relevance for environmental sociology -”his emphasis on time and space”.
