Structure And Agency Case Study
As police officers are known as people as people who are meant to be protecting the citizens of a certain country, one could ask them as to how can they perform such actions when having a negative attitude towards their jobs? Structure and agency, are two very important aspects that help shape and maintain ones behavior towards society. The following essay will be discussing about the structure-agency and how this debate is affiliated with the Captain Louis De Koster negative attitude.
One could define structure as the process of being taught socialization. “Term social structure here refers to the enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of society.” (E. van Huyssteen, 2003: 56). One could say that structure limits a person from doing certain actions and behaviors as one could say that the structural aspect is built upon morals, values and beliefs that are created and sustained within a society an individual comes from and through the process of being part of society and engaging relationships with members of society, one has to follow the “rules” of structure. An example of social structure could include ones social class. As different people from a society are made up of different social classes- there are wealthy people who are placed at the top and the poor people which are …show more content…
This is applicable because as De Koster was originally placed in being at a police officer as to serve his country and fight for his country, even though the transformation of the South African government might have a few negative aspects upon them- the whites such as the “inequalities of police promotion policies” (Altbeker, 2005: 166), he however still decided to stay. De Koster, despite understanding that things are about to change, he still remained an officer for the love of the job and didn’t leave it because of the structural changes of the
One could define structure as the process of being taught socialization. “Term social structure here refers to the enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of society.” (E. van Huyssteen, 2003: 56). One could say that structure limits a person from doing certain actions and behaviors as one could say that the structural aspect is built upon morals, values and beliefs that are created and sustained within a society an individual comes from and through the process of being part of society and engaging relationships with members of society, one has to follow the “rules” of structure. An example of social structure could include ones social class. As different people from a society are made up of different social classes- there are wealthy people who are placed at the top and the poor people which are …show more content…
This is applicable because as De Koster was originally placed in being at a police officer as to serve his country and fight for his country, even though the transformation of the South African government might have a few negative aspects upon them- the whites such as the “inequalities of police promotion policies” (Altbeker, 2005: 166), he however still decided to stay. De Koster, despite understanding that things are about to change, he still remained an officer for the love of the job and didn’t leave it because of the structural changes of the