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Guess also references, in later years Anthony Giddens produced ‘The Constitution of Society: Introduction of the Theory of Structuration’, in which he wrote that:

The (1984) theory of structuration is useful in informing inquiry into the historically available and abstract conceptions of “race,” racism, and whiteness as well as the sociologically concrete, ‘says who?’ Among the core concepts in his theoretical scheme are structuration, structural properties, and structural principles. A major goal of structuration theory is to overcome oppositional dualisms in theorizing by acknowledging the role actors play in the structuration process – in this case, the structuration of society “race” relations.