Consideraciones críticas sobre la teoría de la estructuración de Anthony Giddens

The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the main propositions of Anthony Giddens´s theory of structuration, to think about the proposed synthesis between structure and action. It is considered that this study allows to discuss some of the key topics of contemporary social theory of which this author is one of its principal exponents. The multiple sources from which this theory feeds unleashed various discussions about whether this theory could be a synthesis of the classical conceptions, or whether it was only a formulation of theoretical concepts clipped together. Taking this question as a starting point, it is suggested the thesis that despite the radical nature of the critique of structuralism, Giddens concentrates more on a redefinition of the concept of structure than in a reworking of a sociological theory of the actor and the social action.