About effecting factors on the genesis and persistence of certain political rationality in a society, social theories have been based on two types of contrasts on two levels: Conflict of culture and economy and conflict of structure and agent. At the first level, Marx's approach emphasizes on the economic supremacy and Weberian approach on the supremacy of culture. At the second level, structuralists emphasis on determination of structure and voluntarist insist on the determination of agents. Giddens Structuration theory is an attempt to cross the confrontation between structure and agent and emphasis on the dialectical relationship between them. In this paper, these approaches are explained and then, "double dialectic" approach has been suggested that in which Economic-Marxian perspective and Weberian culturalist approach combined with elements of the Giddens Structuration theory. Thus, in order to study the genesis and continuation of a political rationality in a society, one should avoid one-sided emphasis on the economy or culture and structure or agent. Locomotive of society is composed of two wheels of economy and culture, politics is the engine, and the agent is driver of this locomotive. So, in this article, instead of confrontation approach, two overlapping dialectic discussed: a) the dialectic of structure-agent; b) the dialectic between cultural, economic and political structures, with the mediation of the agent.
Tajik, M., & Shafaghkhavati, M. (2016). Double Dialectic: Structuration of the political Rationality of Societies. Political and International Approaches, 7(3), 40-69.
MLA
Mohammadreza Tajik; Mohammad Shafaghkhavati. "Double Dialectic: Structuration of the political Rationality of Societies". Political and International Approaches, 7, 3, 2016, 40-69.
HARVARD
Tajik, M., Shafaghkhavati, M. (2016). 'Double Dialectic: Structuration of the political Rationality of Societies', Political and International Approaches, 7(3), pp. 40-69.
VANCOUVER
Tajik, M., Shafaghkhavati, M. Double Dialectic: Structuration of the political Rationality of Societies. Political and International Approaches, 2016; 7(3): 40-69.
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