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Group Actors. Why Social Science Should Care About Collective Agency [PDF]
, 2023 This paper examines conceptual issues of the emergence and effects of collective agency. Collective agency seems to challenge the methodological individualist assumption that only individuals can act, but treating group actors, such as parliamentary committees or court chambers, as mere shortcuts for complex interactions among group members raises ...
Gehring, Thomas, Marx, Johannes
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Social Movements and Political Agency in the Digital Age: A Communication Approach
Media and Communication, 2016 Digital media pose a dual challenge to conventional understandings of political agency. First, digital media destabilize long-held assumptions about the nature of collective action, about social movements and their capacity to effect change.
Anastasia Kavada
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Culturally Conferred Conceptions of Agency: A Key to Social Perception of Persons, Groups, and Other Actors [PDF]
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2001 Many tendencies in social perceivers' judgments about individuals and groups can be integrated in terms of the premise that perceivers rely on implicit theories of agency acquired from cultural traditions. Whereas American culture primarily conceptualizes agency as a property of individual persons, other cultures conceptualize agency primarily in ...
Michael W. Morris +2 more
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Социологический журнал, 2022 In the context of developing a new sociology of morality, the article examines such phenomena as moral agency and moral patiency, understood as an actor’s attributed ability to be seen as a subject or object of morally relevant actions.
Svetlana K. Naryan, Andrey V. Bykov
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Social Actors “to Go”: An Analytical Toolkit to Explore Agency in Business Discourse and Communication [PDF]
Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2019 We argue that language awareness and discourse analytical skills should be part of business communication curricula. To this end, we propose a three-step analytical model drawing on organizational and critical discourse studies, and approaches from systemic-functional linguistics, to explore agency and action in business communication.
Erika Darics, Veronika Koller
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International Journal of Integrated Care, 2009 Theme: Two central themes permeate this paper—the interplay between structure and agency in integration processes and the extent to which this is mediated through sensemaking by individual actors. Case study: The empirical base for the paper is provided
Paul Williams, Helen Sullivan
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Reconceptualising Children’s Agency as Continuum and Interdependence
Social Sciences, 2019 Although the idea that children are social actors is well-recognised within childhood studies, the structural contexts shaping child agency and the everyday practices that manifest in children’s social relationships with other generations are not ...
Tatek Abebe
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Youth in the margin in Morocco: a qualitative approach to the perception of subjectivity and agency politics [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 This paper seeks to investigate the potentials of youth agency in the margin of society and understand the prospects for social action or “Hirak” as an ongoing sweeping protest wave of a marginalized population.
Sadoqi Ilham
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The structural contradictions and constraints on corporate social responsibility: Challenges for corporate social irresponsibility [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose - This chapter engages critically with the ideas of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and irresponsibility (CSI) in order to examine their utility for the purposes of realizing more socially just and environmentally sustainable social and ...
Nunn, Alex +3 more
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Metamodern Theory for the Study of More-than-Human Cultures
Cultural Science, 2023 This article develops a metamodern framework for the study of more-than-human cultures by integrating a materialist semiotics (hylosemiotics), with a processual social ontology of agency. Against anthropocentric accounts that restrict culture to language
Storm Jason Ānanda Josephson
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