explaining the goal and way of creation and regarding god as a creator not as an agent, this paper has studied god`s unity in action meant by negating free and full agency from all but god. having proved the fact that the only real efficient of the universe is god, it explains the part of human being in what happens in his life with regard to predestination and destiny. as is understood, events...

I address the question of human agency from perspective critical social theory. Critical theories seek to change reality for better in an ethical-political sense based on a critique what is wrong with existing one. Furthermore, they offer changing that attentive historical, social, and geopolitical contexts. start premise salient context today anthropogenic ecological disaster global scale. ass...

Thucydides self-consciously invented a new form of inquiry, which can reasonably be called “social and political science.” His intellectual goal was a new understanding of power and its relationship to human agency and the deep structures of human society. His understanding of agency and structure is in some ways reminiscent of the reflexivity theory developed by Anthony

The present research investigates cultural variation in conceptual frameworks for interpreting agency. A mind perception measure (Gray, Gray, & Wegner, 2007) was adapted for interviews with Indigenous Ngöbe adults in Panama and US college students. Participants ranked the agency capacities of various entities and provided explanations. Rankings varied systematically, with Ngöbe more likely to a...

Acting in our environment and experiencing ourselves as conscious agents are fundamental aspects of human selfhood. While large advances have been made with respect to understanding human sensorimotor control from an engineering approach, knowledge about its interaction with cognition and the conscious experience of movement (agency) is still sparse, especially for locomotion. We investigated t...