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Agency
The termagency refers to the extent to which individuals have the capacity to choose the action that they take. Human agency involves the proposition that individuals both make choices, irrespective of how they come to make them, and enact them. Such a proposition brings morality into play: If a situation has arisen because of human decision making, then those making such decisions may legitimately be held responsible and value judgments may be made in light of the actions taken.
The central debate concerning agency is the ...
- Art
- Class
- Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
- Agency
- Biracial Identity
- Class
- Class Identity
- Code-Switching
- Complex Inequality
- Critical Race Theory
- Culture
- Culture, Ethnicity, and Race
- Diaspora
- Dimensions of Cultural Variability
- Diversity
- Ethnicity
- Group Identity
- Hegemony
- Race Performance
- Racial Contracts
- Racial Disloyalty
- Society and Social Identity
- Status
- White Racial Identity
- Whiteness Studies
- Xenophobia
- Developing Identities
- Age
- Being and Identity
- Consciousness
- Deindividuation
- Development of Identity
- Development of Self-Concept
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Extraordinary Bodies
- Generation X and Generation Y
- Habitus
- Hybridity
- Id, Ego, and Superego
- Individual
- Individual Autonomy
- Individuation
- Intersubjectivity
- Mind-Body Problem
- Nigrescence
- Person
- Personal Identity versus Self-Identity
- Philosophy of Organization and Identity
- Reflexive Self or Reflexivity
- Saturated Identity
- Self
- Self-Affirmation Theory
- Self-Assessment
- Self-Concept
- Self-Discrepancy Theory
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Enhancement Theory
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Image
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Perception Theory
- Self-Portraits
- Self-Presentation
- Self-Schema
- Self-Verification
- Socialization
- Theory of Mind
- Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
- Identities in Conflict
- Accommodation
- Acculturation
- Adaptation
- Bilingualism
- Biracial Identity
- Clan Identity
- Conflict
- Corporate Identity
- Cultural Contracts Theory
- Culture Shock
- Double Consciousness
- Identification
- Identity Change
- Identity Diffusion
- Identity Negotiation
- Identity Salience
- Identity Uncertainty
- Intercultural Personhood
- Mindfulness
- Mobilities
- Modernity and Postmodernity
- Passing
- Perceptual Filtering
- Philosophy of Mind
- Simulacra
- Language and Discourse
- Ascribed Identity
- Avowal
- Brachyology
- Colonialism
- Deconstruction
- Dialect
- Discourse
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Ethnicity
- Etic/Emic
- Figures of Speech
- Forms of Address
- Framing
- Hermeneutics
- Hyperreality and Simulation
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Intonation
- Invariant Be
- Labeling
- Language
- Language Development
- Language Loss
- Language Variety in Literature
- Narratives
- Phonological Elements of Identity
- Pidgin/Creole
- Profanity and Slang
- Public Sphere
- Rhetoric
- Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Satire
- Semantics
- Semiotics
- Signification
- Structuration
- Style/Diction
- Symbolism
- Tag Question
- Trickster Figure
- Living Ethically
- Media and Popular Culture
- Articulation Theory
- Consciousness
- Consumption
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Studies
- Embeddedness/Embedded Identity
- Framing
- Frankfurt School
- Globalization
- Material Culture
- Media Studies
- Mediation
- Propaganda
- Social Capital
- Society of the Spectacle
- Spectacle and the Self
- Stock Character
- Surveillance and the Panopticon
- Technology
- Values
- Visual Culture
- Visual Pleasure
- Nationality
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- Culture
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- Memory
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- Philosophical History of Identity
- Political Identity
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- Third World
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- War
- Worldview
- Protecting Identity
- Relating across Cultures
- Religion
- Representations of Identity
- Archetype
- Attribution
- Authenticity
- Basking in Reflected Glory
- Bricolage
- Commodity Self
- Critical Realism
- Cultural Representation
- Desire and the Looking-Glass Self
- Existentialist Identity Questions
- Extraordinary Bodies
- Hyperreality and Simulation
- Identification
- Identity Politics
- Intertextuality
- Looking-Glass Self
- Masking
- Material Culture
- Mimesis
- Minstrelsy
- Orientalism
- Other, The
- Philosophy of Organization and Identity
- Race Performance
- Self-Presentation
- Social Constructionist Approach to Personal Identity
- Social Constructivist Approach to Political Identity
- Stereotypes
- Subjectivity
- Theories of Identity
- Afrocentricity
- Articulation Theory
- Asiacentricity
- Black Atlantic
- Cognitive Dissonance Theory
- Communication Competence
- Communication Theory of Identity
- Contact Hypothesis
- Corporate Identity
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Realism
- Critical Theory
- Cultivation Theory
- Cultural Contracts Theory
- Enryo-Sasshi Theory
- Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory
- Eurocentricity
- Global Village
- Identity Scripts
- Immediacy
- Interaction Order
- Mirror Stage of Identity Development
- Modernity and Postmodernity
- Optimal Distinctiveness Theory
- Organizational Identity
- Otherness, History of
- Persistence, Termination, and Memory
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Identity
- Political Economy
- Postliberalism
- Pragmatics
- Public Sphere
- Racial Contracts
- Regulatory Focus Theory
- Social Comparison Theory
- Social Economy
- Social Identity Theory
- Sociometer Hypothesis
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Terror Management Theory
- Theory of Mind
- Third Culture Building
- Uncertainty Avoidance
- World Systems Theory
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