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Structure-Agency Debate

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one of the most enduring debate since the beginning of time is the structure-agency debate. with time issues in the society emancipated, sociology as a study was the born to help us understand human societies better. the birth and evolution of sociology has enabled us to understand understand situations and texts from a sociological perspective as per our understanding of the structure and agency as concepts. The book called, The Dirty Work of Democracy by Altbeker presents to us a chapter that about Captain Louis de Koster whom worked for the SAPS during and after the struggle for liberation in South Africa. This text and the life of Captain Louis in particular help us understand the structure-agency debate. Defining Structure-Agency …show more content…

Captain Louis de Koster has a very negative attitude towards life. this is seen in numerous acts of his, firstly he keeps on howling a lot about the happenings within the Police force. Secondly he plays the race card and complains that most white workers at the SAPS getaway better treatment than others. They are on a superior level and that they always get first preference no matter what. Thirdly he makes a comparison between life in the Police force during the apartheid era and life in the Police force after the apartheid era. he moans that the has been a dramatic change in how things were then and how they are in the contemporary. According to him when he started in his times the was a sense of pride in being a police officer. the fact that he mentions that he loved it support his point. Captain Louis de Koster negativity about today is clear in that he doesn't enjoy and love being a Police Officer as he used to. he believes that the sense of pride vested to this profession years ago is history. fourthly, he also claims that the current new officers and governing structure do not do they portolois correctly and that the is no more growth and development within the police force for a white

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