The theory of structuration is a social theory of the creation and reproduction of social systems that is based on the analysis of both structure and...

energy that they may not have (called band gaps or forbidden bands). Band theory derives these bands and band gaps by examining the allowed quantum mechanical...

Duality of structure is one of Anthony Giddens' coined phrases and main propositions in his explanation of structuration theory. The basis of the duality...

Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. The definition of the word "atom" has changed over the years...

Fine structure theory may refer to: Fine structure, a property in quantum physics Fine structure theory, the study of the levels of the Jensen hierarchy...

aimed toward a reconciliation of structure and agency as concepts. Anthony Giddens has developed structuration theory in such works as The Constitution...

Rhetorical structure theory (RST) is a theory of text organization that describes relations that hold between parts of text. It was originally developed...

Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies. Cengage Learning. p. 191. ISBN 978-1305446090. Merton, Robert (1957). Social Theory and Social Structure. Free...

improvement theory is based on the idea that jobs can be improved through the analysis and optimized of work processes. Adaptive structuration theory provides...

understanding structuration is to understand to duality of structure The similarity of Giddens’ theory and conversation and text theory is a mutual-existing...

1980s, grand theory was reformulated to include theories such as critical theory, structuralism, structural Marxism, and structuration theory – all influenced...

issuance. The capital structure substitution theory is based on the hypothesis that company management may manipulate capital structure such that earnings...

include Bruno Latour (1997) and Callon (1999). Structuration theory attempts to define the structures also as resources and their rules that are organized...

simultaneously. It was introduced after legacies of contingency theory and structuration theory had characterized the field of Information System research...

Community structure theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing society's influence on media coverage. It has been identified by Funk and McCombs...

The trade-off theory of capital structure is the idea that a company chooses how much debt finance and how much equity finance to use by balancing the...

Structure-mapping theory is a theory of analogical reasoning, developed by Dedre Gentner, and for which she was awarded the 2016 David E. Rumelhart Prize...

In corporate finance, the pecking order theory (or pecking order model) postulates that "firms prefer to finance their investments internally, using retained...

reveal or be studied through basic, simpler structures. Kuhn's book contributed to that idea. One theory to which Kuhn replies directly is Karl Popper's...

structuralism, a theory of anthropology grounded in neuroscience Structuration theory, a theory of social systems based in the analysis of both structure and agents...

approaches to the problem of structure and agency, for example in the work of Anthony Giddens in his structuration theory and Pierre Bourdieu in his genetic...

In universal algebra and in model theory, a structure consists of a set along with a collection of finitary operations and relations that are defined...

of structuration. Structuration is based on his previous work on the Duality of structure, the idea that the agency of social actors and structure are...

mind-independent world. This is called the correspondence theory of truth. Various theories and views of truth continue to be debated among scholars,...

framework and a movement for social change. Critical theory examines how dominant groups and structures influence what society considers objective truth,...

of a physical theory is also judged on its ability to make new predictions which can be verified by new observations. A physical theory differs from a...

from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions results in relativism can be found in an essay by Kuhn called "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice...

belief" (JTB) as constituting knowledge. It is particularly associated with a theory discussed in his dialogues Meno and Theaetetus. While in fact Plato seems...

Automata theory is the study of abstract machines and automata, as well as the computational problems that can be solved using them. It is a theory in theoretical...

technology in organizations. DeSanctis and Poole proposed an "adaptive structuration theory" with respect to the emergence and use of group decision support...