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Structure and agency are opposites. Agency is the idea that a person's life outcomes are due entirely, or almost entirely, to his own individual efforts. Social structure is the idea that life outcomes are significantly influenced by the individual's race, class, gender, social status, inherited wealth, legal situation, and many other factors that are outside the individual's control.
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As you can see, they are stated to be opposites, but given unequal weight in the description of their influence. This is either because the theory states it to be so, or the presentation of this is not neutral in point of view. It could well be both, but it shouldn't be either, so I'm going to change it to be more balanced. If anyone knows that the theory states it this way, they should change the text to reflect this and make a note of the unequal weighting of the theory to make clear that it isn't bias on the part of Wiki authors in presentation of the theory.Yb2 (talk) 17:02, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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