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The owner of the biggest art gallery in St. Louis has far less influence on American artistic taste than the owner of the biggest gallery in Los Angeles; the president of Chad has far less power over global environmental policy than the president of Russia. Structures, in short, empower agents differentially, which also implies that they embody the desires, intentions, and knowledge of agents differentially as well. Structures, and the human agencies they endow, are laden with differences in power.” (Sewell 1992, 21)

A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation

William H. Sewell, Jr.

The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 98, No. 1. (Jul., 1992), pp. 1-29. 

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