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Agency (philosophy)
About: Agency (philosophy) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10461 publications have been published within this topic receiving 350831 citations. The topic is also known as: Thought & Human agency.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the notion that children are not inherently inferior to adults is examined. And the authors consider one key conceptual orthodoxy of children, youth, and families: the notion of "childhood innocence".
Abstract: Geographies of Children, Youth and Families is flourishing, but its founding conceptions require critical reflection. This paper considers one key conceptual orthodoxy: the notion that children are...
70 citations
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The authors traces the process by which men made themselves into policemen, translating ideas about work and servitude, about local government and local community, servitude and the ideologies of law and central government into sets of personal beliefs.
Abstract: The year 1856 saw the first compulsory Police Act in England (and Wales). Over the next thirty years a class society came to be policed by a largely working-class police. This book, first published in 1984, traces the process by which men made themselves into policemen, translating ideas about work and servitude, about local government and local community, servitude and the ideologies of law and central government, into sets of personal beliefs.
By tracing the evolution of a policed society through the agency of local police forces, the book illustrates the ways in which a society, at many levels and from many perspectives, understood itself to operate, and the ways in which ownership, servitude, obligation, and the reciprocality of social relations manifested themselves in different communities. This title will be of interest to students of criminology and history.
70 citations
TL;DR: Giddens and Sennett as mentioned in this paper examined the interrelations between self-identity and organizational change in advanced capitalist societies characterized by deregulation of markets, privatization and globalizing economic relations.
Abstract: The article examines the inter-relations between self-identity and organizational change in advanced capitalist societies characterized by deregulation of markets, privatization and globalizing economic relations. It compares two contrasting perspectives on selfhood: the reflexive self (Giddens, 1991) and the corroded self (Sennett, 1998). Giddens suggests that contemporary organizations, rather than eroding meaning, offer a greater degree of choice about self-identity, and enhance reflexivity and agency. Sennett suggests that new economic forms are corrosive of character and social relations. Using examples from predominantly British data, it is argued that both accounts offer relevant insights into the interplay between selfhood and organizations, but that each overstates their case. Giddens offers a persuasive account of the choice and voluntarism characterizing self-identity for at least a proportion of the population. His account of the ‘project of the self’, however, contributes to an ideology of th...
70 citations
TL;DR: Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility as discussed by the authors proposes a new account of the justification of our moral, social, and legal practices and judgments of moral responsibility, based on the agency cultivation model, which holds that a system of responsibility practices can derive its justification from the way it supports our agency.
Abstract: The idea of moral responsibility is central to a wide range of our moral, social, and legal practices, and it underpins our basic notion of culpability. Yet the idea of moral responsibility is increasingly viewed with skepticism by researchers and scholars in psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the law. Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility responds to these challenges, offering a new account of the justification of our practices and judgments of moral responsibility. Three distinctive ideas shape the account. The first is the agency cultivation model, which holds that a system of responsibility practices can derive its justification from the way it supports our agency. The second idea, circumstantialism, is a new way of thinking about agential capacities. This is the view that the capacities required for moral responsibility are functions of agents in circumstances, rather than basic features of agents considered in themselves. The third idea is revisionism, or the idea that a satisfactory theory of moral responsibility will conflict with some aspects of ordinary commitments about freedom and moral responsibility.
70 citations
31 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss from certainty to contingency in Protestant self-assertion and Spiritual Sickness, faith and Democratic Piety, and the moral life and democracy.
Abstract: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: From Certainty to Contingency1. Protestant Self-Assertion and Spiritual Sickness2. Agency and Inquiry After DarwinPart II: Religion, the Moral Life, and Democracy3. Faith and Democratic Piety4. Within the Space of Moral Reflection 5. Constraining Elites and Managing PowerEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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