Keyword

agency

Description: The capacity of individuals or other actors to make choices and act, examined in social theory, psychology, and related fields.

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q3951828

OpenAlex ID: keywords/agency

What Is Agency?

1998 · Mustafa Emirbayer, Ann Mische · American Journal of Sociology · 6,135

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

2013 · Andy Clark · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 5,895

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Toward a Theory of Social Practices

2002 · Andreas Reckwitz · European Journal of Social Theory · 5,532

The precuneus: a review of its functional anatomy and behavioural correlates

2006 · Andrea E. Cavanna, Michael R. Trimble · Brain · 5,120

Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment

1999 · Naila Kabeer · Development and Change · 4,920

Identity and agency in cultural worlds

1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 4,064

A Grammar of Motives

1969 · Kenneth Burke · University of California Press eBooks · 3,659

Development and validation of the State Hope Scale.

1996 · C. R. Snyder, Susie C. Sympson, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 3,532

Interest and Agency in Institutional Theory

1988 · Paul DiMaggio · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 3,392

How the Body Shapes the Mind

2005 · Shaun Gallagher · 3,299

The Network Paradigm in Organizational Research: A Review and Typology

2003 · S. P. Borgatti, P. C. Foster · Journal of Management · 3,246

Culture and Cognition

1997 · Paul DiMaggio · Annual Review of Sociology · 3,155

The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms

2011 · Frank W. Geels · Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions · 3,071

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The will and the ways: Development and validation of an individual-differences measure of hope.

1991 · C. R. Snyder, Cheri Harris, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2,958

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Institutions and Organizations: Ideas, Interests, and Identities

2007 · W. Richard Scott · 2,950

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

2005 · Saba Mahmood · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2,795

Well-Being, Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984

1985 · Amartya Sen · The Journal of Philosophy · 2,714

Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency and Power

2014 · Alicia Gómez · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2,672

Understanding teacher identity: an overview of issues in the literature and implications for teacher education

2009 · Catherine Beauchamp, Lynn Thomas · Cambridge Journal of Education · 2,407

Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency

1994 · Mustafa Emirbayer, Jeff Goodwin · American Journal of Sociology · 2,357

Dimensions of Mind Perception

2007 · Heather M. Gray, Kurt Gray, et al. · Science · 2,321

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

2006 · Lucy Suchman · 2,256

The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions

2005 · Adrian Smith, Andy Stirling, et al. · Research Policy · 2,234

Responsibility and Control

1998 · John Martin Fischer, Mark Ravizza · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2,226

The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse

2004 · Basil Bernstein · Routledge eBooks · 2,144

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