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Author: Dorothy Holland
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001-03-16
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780674005624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text addresses the central problem in anthropological theory of the late 1990s - the paradox that humans are both products of social discipline and creators of remarkable improvisation.
Author: Lina Fruzzetti
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining The Notions And Meanings Of Gender, Power And Agency, This Book Bridges Theoretical Descussions With Empirical Studies On Agency And Power. The Contributors Ask: Does Agency Empower Women? Do Cultural, Genderbased Alternatives, Openly Or Secretly, Assist Women In Search Of The Freedom To Give Voice To Themselves?
Author: Margaret Scotford Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-09-26
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521564410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret Archer's Culture and Agency was first published in 1988, and proved a seminal contribution to social theory and the case for the role of culture in sociological thought. Described in Sociological Review as 'a timely and sophisticated treatment', the book showed that the 'problems' of culture and agency, on the one hand, and structure and agency, on the other, could be solved using the same analytical framework. In this revised edition of Culture and Agency, Margaret Archer contextualises her argument in 1990s cultural sociology and links it explicitly to her latest book, Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Author: Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-11-30
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780822338642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity.
Author: Anindya Kundu
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07-10
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0807763888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we promote the learning and well-being of all students, especially those who come from some of the most disadvantaged backgrounds? Anindya Kundu argues that we can fight against deeply rooted inequalities in the American educational system by harnessing student agency--each person's unique capacity for positive change. To make his case, Kundu draws powerful narratives from a population of individuals who beat the odds to become academically and professionally successful. These strivers have overcome challenges such as broken families, homelessness, unexpected pregnancies, forms of abuse, incarceration, and more, to make it in the world. But it wasn't simply individualism, tenacity, resilience, or grit that helped them. Rather, as Kundu illustrates, it was a combination of social and cultural supports that paved the path towards their dreams, harnessing the inherent power of their agency. Book Features: A counter-narrative to the popular misconception that all students need is "grit." A strengths-based approach to education that is sensitive to students' communities and cultures. Rich, first-person quotes from individuals who have overcome immense odds. Useful diagrams for educational stakeholders on the relationship between grit and agency. Descriptions of dense sociological concepts presented in plain terms. Inclusion of fundamental and new waves in psychology.
Author: Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-02-21
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 019803220X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
Author: David Rubinstein
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780761919285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses two key issues in sociological theory: the debate between structural and cultural approaches and the problem of agency. It does this through looking at the work of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim and the ideas of modern theorists like Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Talcott Parsons. The book examines economics, rational choice theory, network theory, ethnomethodology, and symbolic interactionism.
Author: Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1498574955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepresenting Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children’s agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children’s lives and within childhood studies.
Author: Jo Littler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1317496035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.
Author: S. Madhok
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-01-16
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1137295619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on recent feminist discussions, this collection critically reassesses ideas about agency, exploring the relationship between agency and coercion in greater depth and across a range of disciplinary perspectives and ethical contexts.
