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Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception of human agency. Instead, it oscillates between two differing conceptions of agency that are equally untenable: a scientistic, reductive approach to choice and action, and an instrumental approach that celebrates a romantic notion of free will. This book examines theoretical, philosophical psychology and argues for a historically and socioculturally situated human capacity for choosing and acting in ways not entirely determined by culture and/or biology. The authors present a detailed developmental theory of how agentic capability emerges from the pre-reflective activity of humans in a real physical and social world.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology

• Full title: Psychology and the Question of Agency
• Author: Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Janice Thompson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9780791457269
• ID: 04701802
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 263 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2003

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