The work of the contemporary British sociologist Anthony Giddens, and in particular his
structuration theory, has been widely cited by Information Systems researchers. This paper …

Most theoretical perspectives used to explain the use and effects of communication and
decision support technologies assume some form of technological determinism …

“Adotei os autores como referência em minhas aulas e seminários no Programa de Pós-
graduação em Comunicação da UnB. Convenci meus alunos a estudarem francês para ler …

What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer
something new to the study of work and organization? Practice theories are a set of …

Critical realism is a philosophy of science that positions itself against the major alternative
philosophies underlying contemporary sociology. This book offers a general critique of …

This chapter will consider alternative foundations for the modern analysis of power: the
contributions of the seventeenth-century English political theorist, Thomas Hobbes, and the …

Discourse in Late Modernity sets out to show that critical discourse analysis is strongly
positioned to address empirical research and theory-building across the social sciences …

While neorealism and world-system theory both claim to be “structural” theories of
international relations, they embody very different understandings of system structure and …

Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are
inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing …

World of our Making is a major contribution to contemporary social science. Now reissued in
this volume, Onuf's seminal text is key reading for anyone who wishes to study modern …