Abstract

With a critical consideration of Giddens’ theory of structuration, this paper set out to bridge the agency-structure dilemma by illustrating how to apply Giddens’ theory of structuration in studying crime and criminal behaviors in Ethiopia. Accordingly, the author come up with the argument that both agency and structures are the two sides of a coin that we could not separately attribute to a given social phenomena. Keywords: Ontological Stance, Agency, Structure, Structuration, Contemporary Sociological Theory, Crime. DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-19-04 Publication date: October 31 st 2020

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  • Throughout history social thinkers from different disciplines have tries to understand social phenomena

  • Scholars have employed different perspectives since there is no universal consensus among social theorists on whether individuals produces social life through voluntary action or ‘agency’, or whether it is the ‘structures’ of social rules and processes that operate independently of the agent that determines agency

  • Social theories has been classified into two main groups holding two polarized ontological stances, that either favor social structures, or underline on social action

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Throughout history social thinkers from different disciplines have tries to understand social phenomena. Scholars have employed different perspectives since there is no universal consensus among social theorists on whether individuals produces social life through voluntary action or ‘agency’, or whether it is the ‘structures’ of social rules and processes that operate independently of the agent that determines agency.

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