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Which of the following research programs grew out of Anthony Giddens' structuration theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Institutions as they exist in time and space.
B) Changes in institutions over time and space.
C) How leaders intrude upon and alter social institutions.
D) How science as an institution changes the very world it studies.

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Anthony Giddens places greater emphasis on systems that emerge from intended rather than unintended actions.

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Norbert Elias argues the process of civilization involved the throwing-off of monarchs and nobles.

Which of the following marks the macro pole of George Ritzer's macro-micro continuum?

According to Habermas, the ______ is the domain of substantive rationality.

Both Georges Gurvitch and George Ritzer account for subjectivity and objectivity in their micro-macro integration.

In giving agents the power to change the world, Anthony Giddens affords agency great power in his structuration theory.

According to C. Wright Mills paradigm, _____ are public or affect large numbers of people.

Which of the following can be classified as an agent? Select all, but only those that apply.

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of order at the macro level?

Outline the differences across the Agency-Structure literature.

Discursive consciousness involves actions that cannot be described in words.

While some theorists focus on integrating micro and macro theories, others deal with the links between the micro and macro levels.

Agency can refer to both micro-level actors and macro-level collective actions.

Pierre Bourdieu hoped to bridge constructivism and structuralism rather than agency and structure.

According to George Ritzer, which of the following exists at the macro-subjective level? Select all, but only those that apply.

Although seldom interpreted as such because of micro-macro extremism, which classic sociologist(s) originally linked microscopic and macroscopic theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

According to Jeffrey Alexander, which describes the problem of action at the macro level?

The micro-macro linkage and relating of agency and structure are similar metatheoretical movements happening on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Which of the following marks the micro pole of Georges Gurvitch's macro-micro continuum?