The theory was proposed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, most significantly in The Constitution of Society, which examines phenomenology, hermeneutics, and social practices at the inseparable intersection of structures and agents.
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Structuration theory's theory has been adopted by those with structuralist inclinations, but who wish to situate such structures in human practice rather than to reify them as an ideal type or material property.
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Structuration theory is centrally concerned with order as "the transcending of time and space in human social relationships".
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Structuration theory is relevant to research, but does not prescribe a methodology and its use in research has been problematic.
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Giddens intended his Structuration theory to be abstract and theoretical, informing the hermeneutic aspects of research rather than guiding practice.
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Structuration theory allows researchers to focus on any structure or concept individually or in combination.
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Structuration theory looked for stasis and change, agent expectations, relative degrees of routine, tradition, behavior, and creative, skillful, and strategic thought simultaneously.
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Structuration theory examined spatial organization, intended and unintended consequences, skilled and knowledgeable agents, discursive and tacit knowledge, dialectic of control, actions with motivational content, and constraints.
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Structuration theorists conduct analytical research of social relations, rather than organically discovering them, since they use structuration theory to reveal specific research questions, though that technique has been criticized as cherry-picking.
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Structuration theory proposed a notion of dualism rather than "duality of structure".
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Structuration theory primarily examined structural frameworks and the action within the limits allowed by those conditions.
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Structuration theory combined realist ontology and called her methodology analytical dualism.
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Structuration theory emphasised the importance of temporality in social analysis, dividing it into four stages: structural conditioning, social interaction, its immediate outcome and structural elaboration.
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Structuration theory claimed that the duality of structure does not account for all types of social relationships.
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Structuration theory requested sharper differentiation between the reproduction of institutions and the reproduction of social structure.
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Structuration theory proposed an altered version of the structuration cycle.
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Structuration theory demanded that Giddens better show how wants and desires relate to choice.
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Structuration theory argued that change arises from the multiplicity of structures, the transposable nature of schemas, the unpredictability of resource accumulation, the polysemy of resources and the intersection of structures.
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Oliver used “a theoretical framework derived from Giddens' structuration theory to analyze societal information cultures, concentrating on information and health literacy perspectives.
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Structuration theory can be used in explaining business related issues including operating, managing and marketing.
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