Abstract
Abstract Anthony Giddens is one of the world's foremost social theorists whose work has influenced a wide range of disciplines. Giddens's structuration theory dissolves the differentiation of structure and agency, and through his concept of the duality of structure, social interaction enacts the structural resources of signification, domination, and legitimation. As such, Giddens argues that structural properties of social systems are both the medium and outcome of social practices. Other significant concepts include distanciation, time–space relations, time–space edges, sociohistoricity, and globalization. Various communication scholars have relied on his work to propose models of communication, such as structurational interaction and adaptive structuration theory, and discussed the implications of structuration in organizational identity, policy knowledge, virtual communication, and other issues.
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