Understanding Agency

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Understanding Agency

Author	: Barry Barnes
File Size	: 41,9 Mb
Publisher	: SAGE
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 June 2024
ISBN	: 0761963685
Pages	: 182 pages

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Understanding Agency by Barry Barnes Book PDF Summary

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

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Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universiteat, 2007.

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