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Understanding Agency

Understanding Agency
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 0761963685
ISBN-13 : 9780761963684
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Book Synopsis Understanding Agency by : Barry Barnes

Download or read book Understanding Agency written by Barry Barnes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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