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The Journal of General Psychology
Agency is action aimed at goals selected by an agent. A deterministic world view leaves scant room for agency. To reconcile the arguments, we represent action as nested control systems, ranging from clearly deterministic to clearly volitional. Negative feedback minimizes deviations from setpoints (goals).
Peter R. Killeen +2 more
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Agency is action aimed at goals selected by an agent. A deterministic world view leaves scant room for agency. To reconcile the arguments, we represent action as nested control systems, ranging from clearly deterministic to clearly volitional. Negative feedback minimizes deviations from setpoints (goals).
Peter R. Killeen +2 more
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2003 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Bergeman, Dirk, Valimaki, Juuso
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Tourist Studies, 2001
The concept of ‘the gaze’ brings a philosophical concern for the human subject and human ‘agency’ to tourism studies. Foucault’s concept of the gaze, advocated by Urry, presupposes a narcissistic subject within which there is a deterministic fit between self and society.
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The concept of ‘the gaze’ brings a philosophical concern for the human subject and human ‘agency’ to tourism studies. Foucault’s concept of the gaze, advocated by Urry, presupposes a narcissistic subject within which there is a deterministic fit between self and society.
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Current Anthropology, 2011
This article addresses the challenges a neoliberal conception of agency poses to anthropologists. I first discuss the kind of self that a neoliberal agency presupposes, in particular a self that is a flexible bundle of skills that reflexively manages oneself as though the self was a business.
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This article addresses the challenges a neoliberal conception of agency poses to anthropologists. I first discuss the kind of self that a neoliberal agency presupposes, in particular a self that is a flexible bundle of skills that reflexively manages oneself as though the self was a business.
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Nursing Management, 2003
The Nurses Agencies Association (NAA) was formed recently to represent all licensed nursing agencies in the UK. To bolster its profile, the association has launched its own website, www.the-naa.co.uk.
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The Nurses Agencies Association (NAA) was formed recently to represent all licensed nursing agencies in the UK. To bolster its profile, the association has launched its own website, www.the-naa.co.uk.
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2022
Abstract This chapter discusses the authority and liability of agencies. Agents act on behalf of people taking part in modern commercial transactions. The general law of agency is still primarily governed by case law with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Malaysia.
Ingeborg Schwenzer, Edgardo Muñoz
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Abstract This chapter discusses the authority and liability of agencies. Agents act on behalf of people taking part in modern commercial transactions. The general law of agency is still primarily governed by case law with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Malaysia.
Ingeborg Schwenzer, Edgardo Muñoz
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Agency Triangles: Problems in Agency‐Family Relationships
Family Process, 1983This article focuses on ways in which helping agents, including family therapists, become part of the problem they are treating. Particular emphasis is placed on triangular patterns that frequently develop when one agency involves another in carrying out its functions and in diffusing conflict with a client and his or her family.
D, Carl, G J, Jurkovic
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Agency and learning: Researching agency in educational interactions
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 2016[Extract] During the last decade, agency has gained popularity in educational research, when discussing practice and in policy discourse. For many, agency accounts for the opportunity, will and skill of people to act upon, influence as well as transform activities and circumstances in their lives.
Rajala, Antti +2 more
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Agencies (Frontex and Asylum Agency)
2023Abstract Frontex and the Asylum Agency have received stronger mandates and have started hiring abundant new staff on the basis of a substantial increase in funding. While the Asylum Agency concentrates on information gathering and the quality and coherence of asylum procedures and reception conditions, Frontex increasingly assumes ...
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Planning Agency, Autonomous Agency
2005Abstract Are there forms of psychological functioning that can be characterized without seeing the agent herself as playing an irreducible role and that are plausible candidates for sufficient conditions for agential governance? Are certain forms of functioning necessary for self-governance?
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