Individualism +Holism=Structuration Theory?——Summary and Evaluation to Methodology of Western Sociology

The Dissertation makes a summary to methodology of western sociology research including individualism, holism and structuration theory. At the same time, it proposes that structuration theory has made lots of contributions to overcome the shortcoming of dualism between subjectivity and objectivity, action and structure,individual and society; structuration theory is not the simple combination of individualism and holism.