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In this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. It has borrowed notions of 'agency' and 'choice' from everyday discourse, but increasingly it puts a misconceived individualistic gloss upon them. Against this, Barnes unequivocally identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability. Notions of 'agency', 'freedom' and 'choice' have to be understood by reference to their role in communicative interaction; they are key components of the discourse through which human beings identify each other, and have effects upon each other, as soci
In this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections
Using student-friendly features such as case studies and a glossary, this textbook provides a straightforward introduction to the concept of agency and how it c
Our self-understanding as human agents includes a commitment to three crucial claims about human agency: that agents must be active, that actions are part of th
At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to the discipl
Exercising Agency is a book about decision making. In particular, it looks in detail at how a very important type of organizational decision gets made: whether
