ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Structuration Theory
1 May 2015
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Help stabilize social life; give structure to social institutions, durability to social networks and persistence to behaviour patterns. Some buildings fall into ruin and others are destroyed naturally or by human hand. Some are renovated into something they were not originally. They are objects of reinterpretation, narration and representation. They are an object of human agency and act as an agent of their own. Buildings are an integral element of structuration and reproduction. Contextuality of time-space and connections between time space location and physical social environment of action are interesting boundaries of social life. Buildings are actively passive meeting place of social structure. Buildings become what humans do with them: structuring force of built environment comes from spatial and architectural routinization of interactions, buildings may be able to structure practices without necessarily requiring actors knowledgeable involvement. Space is referred to as a setting of interaction. In reality, a setting refers to elements mobilized in interaction.
