structure

Structures are closely coupled classes of >configurations in networks which in bimodal terms are reflected in ordered matter-energy and knowledge. These classes are stable in time and recurrently reproduced through the actions of actors in a population, because structures are a force of internal selection of actions.
In EE we distinguish between the structures of >technology, >institutions and >power, which are coordinated in the meta-structure of >order.

Basic References

The term structure means everything to everybody. We follow the use in sociology, and in particular the different attempts at dynamizing structure. Our classics here are:
Roy Bhaskar, The Possibility of Naturalism. A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences, New York et al.: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989.
Margaret S.Archer, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach, Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

For some material on the web, see:
On morphology
Tony Lawson's website

Semantic Field
network   order
power   structure   institution   technology
configuration   action