Neste artigo se discute a relação entre conhecimento e sociedade sob perspectiva da produção verdade. Através de uma abordagem etnográfica, examina modernas relações cambiantes segurança ontológica (GIDDENS, 1991) jurídica no espaço profissionalização assistência cooperação em Timor-Leste[1]. Sugere-se, consequência, que efeitos verdade sobre posse alienabilidade terra são produzidos múltiplos ...

This paper explores and evaluates a specific analytical framework that can be used by vocational and education and training (VET) researchers to gain understanding of the complex and ‘evolving’ relations of formal and informal learning within organisations. Giddens’ Structuration Theory (1984), while developed to explain the cyclic nature of broader societal relations, is also useful tool for e...

The paper examines the notion that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have affordances that epitomize the features of our late modern age (Giddens, 1991) and explores whether these affordances (Salomon, 1993, p. 51) can be used to facilitate particular approaches to educational practice. It argues that a clear articulation of these affordances would enable us to understand how the...

The growth of cybercommunities is a notable social phenomenon. Empirical studies of cybercommunities have described new forms of social behaviour that call for deeper conceptual analysis. Drawing on evidence from our research in the cybercommunity Second Life, the authors examine the sociology of cybercommunities through the lens of Giddens’ abstract theories of modernity. In particular, the au...

Giddens' structuration theory is increasingly used in studies assessing IT-based organizational change. However, few studies, if any, have focused on how to empirically apply this “meta-theory”. In this article, over twenty IS studies published in the last ten years which used structuration theory were reviewed. We extend previous research by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of different ...

The case for “analytical dualism” as a means of approaching sociotechnical action is presented as an alternative to accounts which tend to conflate agency, structure, and technology. This is based on the work of Margaret Archer, whose work is in turn located in the traditions of critical realism. Her commitment to analytical dualism, which stresses both the importance of time in analysis and th...

This paper aims to present a cultural analysis of collaborative technologies in the workplace. It examines gender-segregated work in Saudi-Arabia, and presents two contrasting cases of IT usage that act either to enable or constrain cultural change. Using Structuration Theory, the study exemplifies the dynamic and detailed analysis this lens can provide to cultural IS research. The study also e...

This paper develops a theoretical perspective on knowledge management systems, drawing from the work of Polanyi and Giddens, and the literature on communities of practice. This perspective views such systems as a form of re-presentation of the results of action and reflection, whose use should be conceptualised as inextricably interlinked to communication processes within a specific context. Th...