As such, institutions can be regarded
as imposing form and social coherence upon human activity, through the production
and reproduction of settled habits of thought and action. However, institutions themselves
evolve through a process of routinization of human activity. Thus, there is a
duality between action (human activity) and the institutions which structure that
activity. This duality is essentially the agency-structure relationship which has been
widely debated in the social sciences in recent years