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Scholars who emphasize the causal primacy of this concept are criticized as “downwards conflationists” in a 2003 book whose title starts with this word by Margaret Archer. This term refers to the rules and resources found in people’s “memory traces,” according to a sociologist who defined the “duality” of this concept as the fact that it is “both medium and outcome of reproduction of practices.” As a solution to the long-standing debate over the roles of agency and this concept in shaping behavior, (10[1])Anthony Giddens (10[1])developed (10[1])a theory named for this concept plus the suffix “-ation.” (10[3]-5[1])This (10[1])is the (-5[1])first (10[1])title concept of a book that outlines the AGIL (“aa-jil”) paradigm, (-5[1])which is titled for this concept (-5[1])with respect to “social action.” For 10 points, what concept names a type of functionalism (10[2])that was practiced by Talcott Parsons? (10[6])■END■ (10[7]0[2])

ANSWER: social structure [accept structuralism; accept structuration; accept The Structure of Social Action; accept structural functionalism]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2496%0%17%120.26

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