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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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30 Apr 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure for analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts is presented, along with an empirical investigation into the Cultural Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning, and the Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural-Psychological Research.
Abstract: Preface. Introduction. Part One: Theory. 1. Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory. 2. Individualistic Approaches to Agency: A Critique. Part Two: Method. 3. Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural-Psychological Research. 4. Interviewing Techniques for Eliciting Cultural-Psychological Information. 5. A Procedure for Analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts. 6. An Empirical Investigation into The Cultural Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning. References.
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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that autonomy entails universal psychological needs pertaining to agency and identity formation, expressed in different ways over different developmental periods, and that children will claim areas related to the exercise of these abilities, in accordance with the possibilities afforded by different cultural environments.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the necessary role in digital identity in creating the online environments that make up the technologically mediated world, and the negotiations currently debated between social science, philosophy, law, and computer science for creating an identity-rich and safe digital media.
Abstract: Identity is a complex and multifaceted construct that, when considered within a binary, digital environment, is divided into two constituent and occasionally conflicting parts: the collection of information that relates to a single entity (digital identity) and the representation of the self-identity in the digital space (online identity). This entry primarily considers the latter, including the ways it is expressed in an anonymized space – both at an individual and a social level – and the structures that inhibit and support its expression. It also explores the necessary role in digital identity in creating the online environments that make up the technologically mediated world, and the negotiations currently debated between social science, philosophy, law, and computer science for creating an identity-rich and safe digital media.
Keywords:
anonymity;
Big Data;
digital identity;
game characters, avatars, and identity;
networked individualism;
online identity;
possible selves
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TL;DR: The reconciliation model, which explains this anomaly within a developmental framework by positing that the relationship between the self's interests and moral concerns ideally transforms from one of mutual competition to one of synergy, is advanced.
Abstract: Self-interest and moral sensibilities generally compete with one another, but for moral exemplars, this tension appears to not be in play. This study advances thereconciliation model, which explains this anomaly within a developmental framework by positing that the relationship between the self’s interests and moral concerns ideally transforms from one of mutual competition to one of synergy. The degree to which morality is central to an individual’s identity—or moral centrality—was operationalized in terms of values advanced implicitly in self-understanding narratives; a measure was developed and then validated. Participants were 97 university students who responded to a self-understanding interview and to several measures of morally relevant behaviors. Results indicated that communal values (centered on concerns for others) positively predicted and agentic (self-interested) values negatively predicted moral behavior. At the same time, the tendency to coordinate both agentic and communal values within narrative thought segments positively predicted moral behavior, indicating that the 2 motives can be adaptively reconciled. Moral centrality holds considerable promise in explaining moral motivation and its development.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative model is presented which locates agency in the causal powers and capacities of embodied persons to engage in dialogic, signifying acts, grounded in a non-Cartesian concept of person and 'new realist', post-positivist philosophy of science.
Abstract: Although Bourdieu's theory of practice has drawn widespread attention to the role of the body and space in social life, the concept of habitus is problematic as an explanatory account of dynamic embodiment because it lacks an adequate conception of the nature and location of human agency. An alternative model is presented which locates agency in the causal powers and capacities of embodied persons to engage in dialogic, signifying acts. Grounded in a non-Cartesian concept of person and 'new realist', post-positivist philosophy of science, vocal signs and action signs, not the dispositions of a habitus, become the means by which humans exercise agency in dynamically embodied practices. Ethnographic data from the commulnicative practices of the Nakota (Assiniboine) people of northern Montana (USA) support and illustrate the theoretical argument.
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