social structure

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

innovator in the field of

sociology

is composed simultaneously of schemas, which are virtual, and of resources, which are actual.

Social structures have a dual character, defined as composed simultaneously ofschemas, which are virtual, and of resources, which are actual. Schemas functionas fundamental tools of thought not the formally stated prescriptions but theinformal and not always conscious schemas, metaphors and assumptionspresupposed by such formal statements. Schemas are the effects of resources, justas resources as the effects of schemas. William Sewell 1992.

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