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You are the system! (Anthony Giddens, René Descartes and the Modernity)

Hello to you all, dear sociopaths. I am here with a new episode and a new microphone.  In our last broadcast, we made a small introduction to Giddens' sociology . More precisely, we tried to understand the British sociologist Anthony Giddens in the context of the individual, system and structure.  What did Giddens say, to remind you very briefly?  The structural properties of systems are never stable. On the contrary, systems are dynamic formations and are constantly changing. Let's not even call it "changing". Systems are constantly reconstituted.  Take the education system for example. Many of us, in our daily lives, keep saying "The education system must change". Educators, in particular, get angry with their naughty students every day and say in the teachers' room:   "What a terrible system! Some students should not even be allowed to enter the school! According to PISA, Turkey ranks last in understanding what is read. Did you know that!"