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Greener, Ian. "Agency, social theory and social policy." Critical Social Policy 22, no. 4 (November 2002): 688–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02610183020220040701.

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Lawless, John. "Agency in Social Context." Res Philosophica 94, no. 4 (2017): 471–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.11612/resphil.1560.

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Horvath, Peter. "Agency and social adaptation." Applied Behavioral Science Review 6, no. 2 (January 1998): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1068-8595(99)80008-7.

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Sjoberg, Gideon, and Piotr Sztompka. "Agency and Social Structure: Reorienting Social Theory." Social Forces 73, no. 4 (June 1995): 1624. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2580469.

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Musolf, Gil Richard. "Social structure, human agency, and social policy." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 23, no. 6/7 (June 2003): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790570.

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Butylina, O. V., and I. A. Yevdokymova. "Loyalty of social agency personnel." Pedagogical sciences reality and perspectives, no. 77 (2020): 38–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31392/npu-nc.series5.2020.77.08.

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Kernohan, Andrew. "Social Power and Human Agency." Journal of Philosophy 86, no. 12 (December 1989): 712. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2027015.

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Tílio, Rogério, Thaís Sampaio, and Gabriel Martins. "Critical literacy and social agency." Revista da Anpoll 52, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 90–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.18309/ranpoll.v52i2.1549.

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Upon the understanding of Applied Linguistics as an indisciplinary field of inquiry that aims to create intelligibility regarding language-centered social problems (MOITA LOPES, 2006), this article introduces a pedagogical instrument, a Critical Multiliteracies Thematic Project, as a means to develop learners’ critical social agency. The nature of this educational project derives from the pedagogy of critical sociointeractional literacy (TILIO, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2015), whose understanding of language teaching permeates notions of citizenship that defy hegemonic discourses by prompting the analysis of themes and language, and the adoption of a constant critical stance. As the pedagogical project in focus situates its practices through alternative Brazilian female voices, students of an extension English course are led to respond to the multiple discourses on gender-imbricated matters that dwells their social horizons (VOLÓCHINOV, 2017 [1929]). Hence, by investigating the dialogue established between the project and a student, this article intends to contribute to the production of knowledge on social life. In order to do so, we selected a task that integrates the project and a multimodal digital text produced by a student in response to the project. We close off the article by framing the relevance of ethically committed language education in promoting learners’ transforming practices.
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Frost, Liz, and Paul Hoggett. "Human agency and social suffering." Critical Social Policy 28, no. 4 (November 2008): 438–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018308095279.

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Vincent, Carol. "Social class and parental agency." Journal of Education Policy 16, no. 4 (July 2001): 347–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268093011-54344.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social Agency"

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Paraskevaides, Andreas. "Social constraints on human agency." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5655.

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In this thesis, I present a view according to which folk psychology is not only used for predictive and explanatory purposes but also as a normative tool. I take it that this view, which I delineate in chapter 1, can help us account for different aspects of human agency and with solving a variety of puzzles that are associated with developing such an account. My goal is to examine what it means to act as an agent in a human society and the way in which the nature of our agency is also shaped by the normative constraints inherent in the common understanding of agency that we share with other agents. As I intend to demonstrate, we can make significant headway in explaining the nature of our capacity to express ourselves authoritatively in our actions in a self-knowing and self-controlled manner if we place this capacity in the context of our social interactions, which depend on a constant exchange of reasons in support of our actions. My main objective is to develop a promising account of human agency within a folk-psychological setting by mainly focusing on perspectives from the philosophy of action and mind, while still respecting more empirically oriented viewpoints from areas such as cognitive science and neuroscience. Chapter 2 mainly deals with the nature of self-knowledge and with our capacity to express this knowledge in our actions. I argue that our self-knowledge is constituted by the normative judgments we make and that we use these judgments to regulate our behaviour in accordance to our folk-psychological understanding of agency. We are motivated to act as such because of our motive to understand ourselves, which has developed through our training as self-knowing agents in a folk-psychological framework. Chapter 3 explores the idea that we develop a self-concept which enables us to act in a self-regulating manner. I distinguish self-organization from selfregulation and argue that we are self-regulating in our exercises of agency because we have developed a self-concept that we can express in our actions. What makes us distinct from other self-regulating systems, however, is that we can also recognize and respond to the fact that being such systems brings us under certain normative constraints and that we have to interact with others who are similarly constrained. Chapter 4 is mainly concerned with placing empirical evidence which illustrate the limits of our conscious awareness and control in the context of our account of agency as a complex, emergent social phenomenon. Finally, chapter 5 deals with the way in which agentive breakdowns such as self-deceptive inauthenticity fit with this account.
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Dunst, Brian W. "Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4473.

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Theories of cognition and theories of social practices and institutions have often each separately acknowledged the relevance of the other; but seldom have there been consistent and sustained attempts to synthesize these two areas within one explanatory framework. This is precisely what my dissertation aims to remedy. I propose that certain recent developments and themes in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, when understood in the right way, can explain the emergence and dynamics of social practices and institutions. Likewise, the view I construct explains how social practices and institutions shape the character of cognition of their constituent agents. Moreover, I explain both cognitive and social agency under the single explanatory framework provided by Dynamic Systems Theory. Drawing upon the phenomenological tradition, "embodied, "extended", "embedded", "enactive", and "ecological" approaches to cognition, as well as the conceptual resources of Dynamic Systems Theory, I construct a theory of agency that sees cognitive and social agents as far-from-equilibrium, open, recursively self-maintenant dynamic systems. Depending on the specifics of concrete circumstances, such systems, which I call "Dynamic Embodied Agents" (or DEAs), may develop and possess emergent capacities for error-detection, flexible learning, normative behavior, representation, self-reflection, various modes of pattern-recognition, a temporal sense of self, and even moral responsibility. Some such systems are also sensitive to perceived social influences (practices and institutions); while reciprocally constituting and causally affecting them.
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D'Iverno, Mark Paul. "Social agency : a formal computational model." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300509.

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Saaristo, Antti Jussi. "Social ontology and agency : methodological holism naturalised." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2561/.

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Contemporary philosophy of the social sciences is dominated by methodological individualism. Intentional agency is assumed to be conceptually and explanatorily prior to social facts and social practices. In particular, it is generally thought that denials of methodological individualism are bound to include ontologically unnatural and, thereby, unacceptable views. This dissertation provides a comprehensive criticism of this orthodoxy. Part I argues that social facts do not have to be understood as aggregates of actions and attitudes of essentially asocial individuals. Rather, the construction of social facts requires that acting as a member of a group rather than as a disparate individual is a fundamental building block of social reality and social facts. This idea is explicated in the anti-individualistic terms of the theory of collective intentionality. Part II tackles the accusation that the theory of collective intentionality is indefensibly anti-naturalistic in the sense that its picture of humans is essentially incompatible with evolutionary biology. This accusation is answered in terms of detailed analyses of evolutionary models of human sociality and empirical studies of the nature of social action. Part II concludes that it is actually the methodologically individualistic picture of social action as strategic individual action that is unacceptable. The theory of collective intentionality is compatible with and supported by scientific naturalism. Part III, then, defends full-blown methodological holism. It is argued that intentional action and agency as we know them actually require that individual agents (qua agents and not qua physical objects) are essentially constituted by social practices. Intentional action must be explained and understood in terms of social practices. However, this view is argued to be perfectly naturalistic both in the sense of not assuming any ontologically suspect entities and in the sense of being supported by the natural sciences. Indeed, it is the individualistic orthodoxy that has to apply unnatural notions.
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Arif, Farrah. "Impact of social agency on child-brand relationships." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610614.

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Quadrelli, Carol A. "Aberrance, agency and social constructions of women offenders." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15849/1/Carol_Quadrelli_Thesis.pdf.

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Traditionally offending women are framed through essentialist discourses of pathologisation and the family. Hence, good women are constructed as passive, compliant, vulnerable to victimisation, and nurturers. Offending women are constructed within criminal justice processes as disordered, physiologically and psychologically flawed. Censure or sympathy dispensed to women within the system is contingent on a number of key factors: the type of offence, the category of women involved, and the way in which women interact and negotiate the discourses used to construct their aberrance. The focus of this thesis is offending women and how they are socially constructed through legal and penal discourses within the court and the prison. However this thesis rejects the essentialist framework which positions women as passive recipients of an omnipotent patriarchal criminal justice system and thus having no agency. Nor is this thesis about creating a new entity to encompass all offending women. Instead an anti- essentialist approach is adopted that allows the body, power, and women's agency to be theorised. This approach provides a more complex and detailed account of women's aberrance that acknowledges the diverse range of women, their experiences and negotiations of criminal justice processes. The combination of real women's lived experiences and an alternative theoretical framework provides a very different perspective in which to understand female offending.
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Quadrelli, Carol A. "Aberrance, Agency and Social Constructions of Women Offenders." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15849/.

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Traditionally offending women are framed through essentialist discourses of pathologisation and the family. Hence, good women are constructed as passive, compliant, vulnerable to victimisation, and nurturers. Offending women are constructed within criminal justice processes as disordered, physiologically and psychologically flawed. Censure or sympathy dispensed to women within the system is contingent on a number of key factors: the type of offence, the category of women involved, and the way in which women interact and negotiate the discourses used to construct their aberrance. The focus of this thesis is offending women and how they are socially constructed through legal and penal discourses within the court and the prison. However this thesis rejects the essentialist framework which positions women as passive recipients of an omnipotent patriarchal criminal justice system and thus having no agency. Nor is this thesis about creating a new entity to encompass all offending women. Instead an anti- essentialist approach is adopted that allows the body, power, and women's agency to be theorised. This approach provides a more complex and detailed account of women's aberrance that acknowledges the diverse range of women, their experiences and negotiations of criminal justice processes. The combination of real women's lived experiences and an alternative theoretical framework provides a very different perspective in which to understand female offending.
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De, Angelis Maria Ivanna. "Human trafficking : women's stories of agency." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5823.

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This thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and protection of victims and the simultaneous prosecution of traffickers) official discourse constructs trafficking agency in singular opposition to trafficking victimhood. The ‘true’ victim of trafficking is reified in attributes of passivity and worthiness, whereas signs of women’s agency are read as consent in their own predicament or as culpability in criminal justice and immigration rule breaking. Moving beyond the official lack or criminal fact of agency, this research adds knowledge on agency constructed with, on, and by women possessing a trafficking experience. This fills an internationally recognised gap in the trafficking discourse. Within the thesis, female agency is explored in feminist terms of women’s immediate well-being agency (their physical safety and economic needs) and their longer term requirements for agency freedom (their capacity to construct choices and the conditions affecting choice). This feminist exploration of the terrain on trafficking found ways in which female agency takes shape in relationship and in degrees to women’s subjective and structural victimisation. Based upon the stories of twenty six women gathered through an in-depth qualitative study, agency is visible in identity, decision making and actions. Women fashioned individual trafficking identities from their subjective engagement with the official trafficking descriptors. Additionally, their identification with ties to home (expressed via family relationships, occupational roles, national dress and ethnic food) helped to sustain their pre-trafficking personas. Women exhibited agency in risk taking and choices (initial, shared, constrained and precarious), which characterised their journeys and explained their grading of trafficking ‘pains’. Significantly, the fieldwork raised women’s engagement with ‘the rules’ and practices of the host society, as a way of realising new social, recreational, educational, employment, sexual and consumer related freedoms. Acknowledging the international and UK serious organised crime frame on trafficking, the fieldwork also included fifteen interviews with anti-trafficking professionals involved in delivering the three Ps of trafficking policy. This complementary standpoint to women’s stories presents ways in which official actors helped and hindered women’s achievement of well-being and agency freedoms. Crucially, in addressing trafficking as an evolving and integral aspect in contemporary global movement - displaying similarity and cross over with migration, smuggling, asylum and refugee accounts - this research unearthed trafficking exploitations and experiences around transnational marriage, which have been traditionally isolated and overlooked by UK trafficking discourse and policy platforms.
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Elder-Vass, David John. "The theory of emergence, social structure and human agency." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430776.

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Bissell, G. "Time, agency, and social thought in nineteenth century England." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373217.

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Books on the topic "Social Agency"

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Agency, Benefits. Social fund guide. London: HMSO, 1991.

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Strong-Wilson, Teresa, Claudia Mitchell, Allnutt Susann, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, eds. Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8.

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Office, National Audit. Department of Social Security: Resettlement Agency. London: H.M.S.O., 1992.

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Jeffery, Liz. Understanding agency: Social welfare and change. Bristol: Policy Press, 2011.

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Understanding agency: Social welfare and change. Bristol: Policy Press, 2011.

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Piotr, Sztompka, ed. Agency and structure: Reorienting social theory. Yverdon, Switzerland: Gordon and Breach, 1994.

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Wojciech, Gasparski, Mlicki Marek K, and Banathy Bela H, eds. Social agency: Dilemmas and education praxiology. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1996.

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Shapiro, Scott. Massively shared agency. [Toronto]: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2006.

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Marcia-Anne, Dobres, and Robb John E, eds. Agency in archaeology. London: Routledge, 2000.

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Burke, Sean. Performance management in the Social Security Agency. [s.l: The Author], 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Social Agency"

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Hayward, Bronwyn. "Social agency." In Children, Citizenship and Environment, 86–114. 2nd edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003000396-4.

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Rebughini, Paola. "Agency." In Framing Social Theory, 20–38. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003203308-3.

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Spiers, Emily. "Agency." In Routledge Handbook of Social Futures, 38–51. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429440717-3.

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Winnicott, Clare. "Casework and Agency Function*." In Social Work and Social Values, 102–12. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003199991-7.

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Menyah, Kojo. "Agency Theory." In Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, 64–69. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28036-8_108.

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Palfy, Cora S. "Agency in music, agency in mind." In Musical Agency and the Social Listener, 9–22. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003169710-2.

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Ingold, Tim. "When ANT meets SPIDER: Social theory for arthropods." In Material Agency, 209–15. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74711-8_11.

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Jordan, Jeffrey W., and Kristin Carroll. "Rescue Agency." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Social Marketing, 1–6. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14449-4_50-1.

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Risjord, Mark. "Action and Agency." In Philosophy of Social Science, 75–108. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003207795-5.

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Collins, Stewart. "Control and agency." In The Positive Social Worker, 183–206. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315136127-10.

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Conference papers on the topic "Social Agency"

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Nicholas, Paul, David Stasiuk, and Tim Schork. "The Social Weavers: Negotiating a continuum of agency." In ACADIA 2014: Design Agency. ACADIA, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.497.

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Antopolskaya, T. A., and A. S. Silakov. "The formation of the socio-moral component of the personal agency of a teenager in the environment of additional education." In INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL ONLINE CONFERENCE. Знание-М, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.38006/907345-50-8.2020.27.39.

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The article reveals the problem of formation of the socio-moral component of the personal agency of a teenager in the environment of additional education. It considers the theoretical aspects of this problem. The attention is paid to the understanding of personal agency, its connection with the conditions of the social environment during the teen years. The component structure of personal agency is given. The article also describes the methods and results of the study of the socio-moral component of the personal agency of adolescents. It deals with the controversial issues of the formation of the individual components of personal agency: social responsibility and moral-axiological attitude to the subjects of the social environment. The attention of the reader is drawn to the potential of a socially enriched environment of additional education for the formation of the personal agency of modern adolescents.
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Williams, Mani, Jane Burry, and Asha Rao. "Understanding Social Behaviors in the Indoor Environment: A complex network approach." In ACADIA 2014: Design Agency. ACADIA, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.671.

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Welch, Christopher, Tane Moleta, and Jules Moloney. "Selective Interference: Emergent complexity informed by programmatic, social and performative criteria." In ACADIA 2014: Design Agency. ACADIA, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.719.

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Robb, Andrew, and Benjamin Lok. "Social presence in mixed agency interactions." In 2014 IEEE Virtual Reality (VR). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vr.2014.6802076.

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Vela, J., and M. del. "Social and political agency of architecture." In The 10th EAAE/ARCC International Conference. Taylor & Francis Group, 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742: CRC Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315226255-21.

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Ghazali, Aimi Shazwani, Jaap Ham, Panos Markopoulos, and Emilia Barakova. "Investigating the Effect of Social Cues on Social Agency Judgement." In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hri.2019.8673266.

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Schwartz, Kenneth, and Byron Mouton. "Agency and Immersion:Design Build & Social Entrepreneurship." In 107th ACSA Annual Meeting. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.107.33.

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Boychenko, Kristina. "Re-defining the Role of Interactive Architecture in Social Relationships." In International Conference on the 4th Game Set and Match (GSM4Q-2019). Qatar University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/gsm4q.2019.0016.

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With rapid advance of new technologies and mediated built space has shifted from a static context of functions serving users to a new participant of social relationships. Interactive abilities and computational power allow built space to become smart, dynamic, and interactive, gaining agency, able to receive information and think, perceive and learn, respond and change behavior in real time. This paper considers architectural components and users as participants of a social network and investigates their agency within this network, modes of interaction and how the components of this system influence each other. Perception of space within or outside of the building body has become a derivative of interaction between the space and the users, and therefore subject to design and programming by architects. The principal goal of this paper is to investigate the new definition of social role of interactive architecture and explain how it communicates with users, investigate the new properties it has and how does it influence users' behavior and space awareness. It reveals the importance of bi-directional communication between society and interactive environment. Interactive space works as a mirror, reflecting social and cultural context, or a double-sided mirror allowing interactive environment to observe users and decide how to act in accordance with these observations. Within the framework of this discourse, architectural components and people are treated as agents of one socio-technical network with equal rights and agency. It considers both human and non-human elements equally as actors within a network, employing the same analytical and descriptive methodology to all actors within a heterogeneous network.
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Kim, Minjoo. "The Effects of Social Welfare Agency User’s Social Capital on Social Welfare Consciousness." In Does Nonprofit Board of Directors Affect the Management of Social Welfare Organization?-Focusing on Social Workers’ Perception of Organizational Ethics. Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2016.131.08.

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Reports on the topic "Social Agency"

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McCartor, Betsy. An investigation of the combined effect of agency support and professional social workers' training on the type of family therapy practiced by agency-based social workers. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.1925.

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Lopes, Helena. Individuals, persons and agency theory – contrasted views on social interactions at work. DINÂMIA'CET-IUL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7749/dinamiacet-iul.wp.2014.04.

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Cook, Christopher. Agency, Consolidation, and Consequence: Evaluating Social and Political Change in New Orleans, 1868-1900. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.535.

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Wetle, Terrie. Coordination in social service systems: the Area Agency on Aging as a case study. Portland State University Library, January 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/etd.592.

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Devereux, Stephen, and Anna Wolkenhauer. Agents, Coercive Learning, and Social Protection Policy Diffusion in Africa. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2021.068.

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This paper makes theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of social policy diffusion, drawing on the case of social protection in Africa, and Zambia in particular. We examine a range of tactics deployed by transnational agencies (TAs) to encourage the adoption of cash transfers by African governments, at the intersection between learning and coercion, which we term ‘coercive learning’, to draw attention to the important role played by TA-commissioned policy drafting, evidence generation, advocacy, and capacity-building activities. Next, we argue for making individual agents central in the analysis of policy diffusion, because of their ability to reflect, learn, and interpret policy ideas. We substantiate this claim theoretically by drawing on practice theories, and empirically by telling the story of social protection policy diffusion in Zambia through three individual agents. This is complemented by two instances of self-reflexivity in which the authors draw on their personal engagements in the policy process in Zambia, to refine our conclusions about the interplay of structure and agency.
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Arora, Saurabh, Arora, Saurabh, Ajit Menon, M. Vijayabaskar, Divya Sharma, and V. Gajendran. People’s Relational Agency in Confronting Exclusion in Rural South India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/steps.2021.004.

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Social exclusion is considered critical for understanding poverty, livelihoods, inequality and political participation in rural India. Studies show how exclusion is produced through relations of power associated with gender, caste, religion and ethnicity. Studies also document how people confront their exclusion. We use insights from these studies – alongside science and technology studies – and rely on life history narratives of ‘excluded’ people from rural Tamil Nadu, to develop a new approach to agency as constituted by two contrasting ways of relating: control and care. These ways of relating are at once social and material. They entangle humans with each other and with material worlds of nature and technology, while being mediated by structures such as social norms and cultural values. Relations of control play a central role in constituting exclusionary forms of agency. In contrast, relations of care are central to the agency of resistance against exclusion and of livelihood-building by the ‘excluded’. Relations can be transformed through agency in uncertain ways that are highly sensitive to trans-local contexts. We offer examples of policy-relevant questions that our approach can help to address for apprehending social exclusion in rural India and elsewhere.
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Edwards, Frannie, Kaikai Liu, Amanda Lee Hughes, Jerry Zeyu Gao, Dan Goodrich, Alan Barner, and Robert Herrera. Best Practices in Disaster Public Communications: Evacuation Alerting and Social Media. Mineta Transportation Institute, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2022.2254.

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This research project examines the current state of the practice for disaster public communication, the distrust of government, the training available to public information officers, and the literature available to guide the design of effective public outreach messaging, especially for rapid on-set events. Growing distrust in government had led to lack of public confidence in public agency messaging during emergencies, yet public agency public information officers are using multiple pathways, including both traditional and social media resources, to try to reach impacted communities effectively. The introduction explains the development of wildfire events in the West and their context. A literature review displays the sociological and political research that guides the development of public outreach, warning and evacuation. The findings display the SCU Complex Fire and CZU Complex Fire of 2020 as case studies of outreach efforts during rapid onset wildfire events and explains techniques of data scraping that could enhance public messaging. The analysis categorizes a variety of best practices in disaster communications. The project concludes with a white paper outlining a pathway toward creating a cell phone app that would provide event, time and location specific information about a disaster event, using official sources and social media.
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Slater, Rachel, Daniela Baur, and Ella Haruna. Capacity and Coordination Challenges for Social Assistance in Crisis Situations. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/basic.2022.030.

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The terms ‘capacity’ and ‘coordination’ feature consistently in literature on humanitarian cash transfers and social protection. Multiple international agency projects and initiatives seek to build or strengthen both. Yet, while ‘capacity’ and ‘coordination’ are commonly used and are frequently identified as deficits that hinder improved programming in crisis situations, there is relatively little understanding of what levels of capacity and coordination exist in fragile settings and of how the dimensions of both might vary in crises compared to more stable and secure situations. Across the social protection and humanitarian sectors, frameworks for assessing and addressing capacity and coordination are fledgling at best, with little guidance available to those trying to improve capacity and coordination. (Guidance for cash working groups is an exception to this.) A better understanding of the evidence on capacity and coordination of social assistance during crises and of the main knowledge gaps is key to identifying solutions to overcome capacity and coordination deficits – solutions that are fit-for-purpose in situations of protracted crisis.
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Ault, Alisha, Evert-jan Quak, and Luize Guimarães. The Importance of Soft Skills for Strengthening Agency in Female Entrepreneurship Programmes. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/muva.2022.004.

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This paper is part of the MUVA Paper Series on female entrepreneurship. It focuses on how soft skills in female entrepreneurship programmes strengthen agency and impact economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It draws on both the literature and lessons learned from Mozambique-based social incubator MUVA. By exploring MUVA’s entrepreneurship experience, this paper contributes to debates in the literature about the importance of soft skills in female entrepreneurship programmes for enhanced self-esteem, self-confidence and self-efficacy to strengthen agency.
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Perri Leviss, Perri Leviss. BE HEARD! The Role of Social Agency in the Pathway(s) to Adulthood for Low-Income Young People and Young People of Color. Experiment, October 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18258/10067.

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