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The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of

Giddens, Anthony. The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Why this matters here

Giddens's structuration theory treats social practices as both shaped by and reproducing institutional arrangements. The chapter cites this mechanism when considering how people inherit and remake their environments, separately from Arendt's historical and political reflections.