structurationn.

Brit.

/ˌstrʌktʃəˈreɪʃn/, U.S.

/ˌstrək(t)ʃəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: structure v., -ation suffix.

Etymology: < structure v. + -ation suffix.

1. The state or process of organization or arrangement in a structured form; structuring; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > specifically of something immaterial

texture1611

enginery1744

machinery1758

fabric1823

structuration1925

1925 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 36 369 The progress of configurational change is from chaotic groups of elements, at the one extreme (really a minimum of ‘structuration’), to more and more complex structures.

1934 Mind 43 110 In man the main feature, because the dynamic feature, of his development consists in the structuration of his propensities into sentiments.

1973 Screen Spring 11 Semiology opens out that process in its disengagement of the heterogeneity of codes at work in the structuration of film.

1983 N. Marshall tr. A. Perrodon Dynamics of Oil & Gas Accumulations iii. ii. 233 They are distinguished by considerable tectonic instability, high subsidence and an often complex structuration.

2003 A. Chaudhury D. H. Lawrence & ‘Difference’ iv. 142 The language of aesthetic response in Western culture is not very remote in its structuration from the language of transaction located in the economy of that very culture.

2. Sociology. The theory, formulated by the English sociologist Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), that structure in society is a process rather than a fixed state, and which focuses on social practices as both produced by, and productive of, social structure; the process of formation and re-formation of social structures as described by this theory.

ΚΠ

1973 A. Giddens Class Struct. Adv. Societies xi. 201 The influence of paratechnical relations upon working-class structuration.

1984 A. Giddens Constit. Society (1986) i. 3 An ontology of time-space as constitutive of social practices is basic to the concept of structuration.

1993 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 18 326 Structures themselves exist only in a continuous process of structuration.

2011 Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. 2 Lord Giddens, the former Director of the LSE, is renowned for his theory of structuration, an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomies of social systems.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	structuration
释义	structurationn. Brit. /ˌstrʌktʃəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌstrək(t)ʃəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: structure v., -ation suffix. Etymology: < structure v. + -ation suffix. 1. The state or process of organization or arrangement in a structured form; structuring; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > specifically of something immaterial texture1611 enginery1744 machinery1758 fabric1823 structuration1925 1925 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 36 369 The progress of configurational change is from chaotic groups of elements, at the one extreme (really a minimum of ‘structuration’), to more and more complex structures. 1934 Mind 43 110 In man the main feature, because the dynamic feature, of his development consists in the structuration of his propensities into sentiments. 1973 Screen Spring 11 Semiology opens out that process in its disengagement of the heterogeneity of codes at work in the structuration of film. 1983 N. Marshall tr. A. Perrodon Dynamics of Oil & Gas Accumulations iii. ii. 233 They are distinguished by considerable tectonic instability, high subsidence and an often complex structuration. 2003 A. Chaudhury D. H. Lawrence & ‘Difference’ iv. 142 The language of aesthetic response in Western culture is not very remote in its structuration from the language of transaction located in the economy of that very culture. 2. Sociology. The theory, formulated by the English sociologist Anthony Giddens (b. 1938), that structure in society is a process rather than a fixed state, and which focuses on social practices as both produced by, and productive of, social structure; the process of formation and re-formation of social structures as described by this theory. ΚΠ 1973 A. Giddens Class Struct. Adv. Societies xi. 201 The influence of paratechnical relations upon working-class structuration. 1984 A. Giddens Constit. Society (1986) i. 3 An ontology of time-space as constitutive of social practices is basic to the concept of structuration. 1993 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 18 326 Structures themselves exist only in a continuous process of structuration. 2011 Times (Nexis) 3 Mar. 2 Lord Giddens, the former Director of the LSE, is renowned for his theory of structuration, an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomies of social systems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1925
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