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Processes of interpretation

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Each member of the group monitors behvior and adjusts norms to varying circumstances.

"Structure only exists if as people do things knowledgeably and do them in certain contexts that have particular consequences" (Giddens 1998, 81).
"Social life . . . . is continually contingently reproduced by knowledgeable human agents -- that's what gives it fixity and that's what also produces change" (90).