Giddens writes that the connection between structure and action is a fundamental element of social theory, structure and agency are a duality that cannot be conceived of apart from one another and his main argument is contained in his expression " duality of structure ".
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Wanda Orlikowski applied her critique of the duality of structure to technology : " The duality of technology identifies prior views of technology as either objective force or as socially constructed product as a false dichotomy . " She compared this to previous models ( the technological imperative, strategic choice, and technology as a trigger ) and considered the importance of meaning, power, norms, and interpretive flexibility.
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The duality of structures means that structures enter " simultaneously into the constitution of the agent and social practices, and'exists'in the generating moments of this constitution . " " Structures exist paradigmatically, as an absent set of differences, temporally " present " only in their instantiation, in the constituting moments of social systems . " Giddens draws upon structuralism and post-structuralism in theorizing that structures and their meaning are understood by their differences.
