Sumblog 12: Anthony Giddens

Systems and structures exist in a dual relationship with each other.  They tend to produce and reproduce each other in an ongoing cycle. This is referred to as the "structuration process".  Anthony Giddens study of structuration theory deals with evolution and development of social group and organizations. Structuration is about social life and how it is more then random individual acts, but is merely determined by social forces

The mass is not focused merely on a micro nor a macro- level in society. Giddens suggests that human agency and social structure are in a relationship with each other and it is the repetition of acts of individual agents, which reproduces the structure.  Moral codes, traditions, institutions, can all be changed as time change. People can start ignoring them and replacing them with newer technology or views. His theory views groups or organizations as systems with "observable patterns of relationships and communicative interaction among people creating structures".

Behavior and structure are intertwined; people go through a socialization process and become dependent of the existing social structures, but at the same time social structures are being altered by their activity.  Rules Create the structure of a group of people. Roles and the resources of a group is what makes the group transform civilizations.  The assumptions of structorization are at which power structures are presented in the prginazition which guide the groups behavior. 

This video is an example of power structures, and how the effects of their choices played a role in the Phyciactric Institutions.  Mental Health facilities have long been stigmatized for their abuse and inhumane ways of treating people. This is why... There are good people in the world who want to help, and there are people who use their greed as an excuse for genaside. Throughout  time, the government has controlled us through socialization, not just in America, but throughout out the world. Eugenics is the belief and practice of improving the genetic quality of human population.  The power structures throughout time consist of people involved in Eugenics. In 1930's The eugenics movement sterilized people in Mental institutions.