Understanding Your Social Agency
Author: Armand Lauffer
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2010-11-16
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 141292653X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRev. ed. of: Understanding your social agency. 2nd ed. 1984.
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Understand Social Agency
Author: Armand Lauffer
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1984-11
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780803923492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revised and expanded Second Edition of the widely read Understanding Your Social Agency offers students and practitioners a simple yet comprehensive introduction to organizational theory and its meaning for social agencies. Each of the first ten chapters is devoted to a particular perspective for understanding the agency. The final chapter considers using each of the ten perspectives independently, or in tandem, to solve problems within or on behalf of the agency. It will be a useful guide to solving problems of an organizational nature within an agency.
Understanding Agency
Author: Barry Barnes
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780761963684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. It has borrowed notions of 'agency' and 'choice' from everyday discourse, but increasingly it puts a misconceived individualistic gloss upon them. Against this, Barnes unequivocally identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability. Notions of 'agency', 'freedom' and 'choice' have to be understood by reference to their role in communicative interaction; they are key components of the discourse through which human beings identify each other, and have effects upon each other, as soci
Understanding Social Media
Author: Damian Ryan
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Published: 2015-04-03
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0749473576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Social Media is the essential guide to social media for students and professionals alike. Drawing on the experience, advice and tips from dozens of digital marketers and social media superstars, it is an extensive crowd-sourced guide to social media platforms. Illustrated throughout with case studies from both successful and failed campaigns, Understanding Social Media democratizes knowledge of social media and promotes best practice, answering questions such as 'How do you create a compelling social media campaign?', 'How do you build and engage with an audience?' and 'Where is the line between online PR and social media drawn?' It is the most comprehensive and practical reference guide to social media available.
Understanding Agency
Author: Barry Barnes
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 2000-01-28
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780761963684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this penetrating and assured book, one of the leading commentators in the field argues that social theory is moving in the wrong direction in its reflections on human freedom and autonomy. It has borrowed notions of 'agency' and 'choice' from everyday discourse, but increasingly it puts a misconceived individualistic gloss upon them. Against this, Barnes unequivocally identifies human beings as social agents in a profound sense, and emphasises the vital importance of their sociability. Notions of 'agency', 'freedom' and 'choice' have to be understood by reference to their role in communicative interaction; they are key components of the discourse through which human beings identify each other, and have effects upon each other, as soci
Musical Agency and the Social Listener
Author: Cora S. Palfy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-21
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1000463338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic as a narrative drama is an intriguing idea, which has captured explicit music theoretical attention since the nineteenth century. Investigations into narrative characters or personae has evolved into a sub-field—musical agency. In this book, Palfy contends that music has the potential to engage us in social processes and that those processes can be experienced as a social interaction with a musical agent. She explores the overlap between the psychological processes in which we participate in order to understand and engage with people, and those we engage in when we listen to music. Thinking of musical agency as a form of social process is quite different from existing theoretical frameworks for agency. It implies that we come to musical analysis by way of intuition—that our ideas are already partially formed based on our experience of the piece (and what it makes us feel or how it makes us sense it as any other) when we choose to analyze and interpret it. Palfy’s focus on social processes is a very effective way to pinpoint when and why it is that our attention is captured and engaged by musical agents.
Psychological Agency
Author: Roger Frie
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA multidisciplinary exploration of agency as a central psychological phenomenon based on the affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience. Agency is a central psychological phenomenon that must be accounted for in any explanatory framework for human action. According to the diverse group of scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have contributed chapters to this book, psychological agency is not a fixed entity that conforms to traditional definitions of free will but an affective, embodied, and relational processing of human experience. Agency is dependent on the biological, social, and cultural contexts that inform and shape who we are. Yet agency also involves the creation of meaning and the capacity for imagining new and different ways of being and acting and cannot be entirely reduced to biology or culture. This generative potential of agency is central to the process of psychotherapy and to psychological change and development. The chapters explore psychological agency in theoretical, clinical and developmental, and social and cultural contexts. Psychological agency is presented as situated within a web of intersecting biophysical and cultural contexts in an ongoing interactive and developmental process. Persons are seen as not only shaped by, but also capable of fashioning and refashioning their contexts in new and meaningful ways. The contributors have all trained in psychology or psychiatry, and many have backgrounds in philosophy; wherever possible they combinetheoretical discussion with clinical case illustration. Contributors: John Fiscalini, Roger Frie, Jill Gentile, Adelbert H. Jenkins, Elliot L. Jurist, Jack Martin, Arnold Modell, Linda Pollock, Pascal Sauvayre, Jeff Sugarman
Human Service Agencies
Author: Lupe Alle-Corliss
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical and personal guide will alert you to the real-world issues of agency settings - helping you make the most of your agency experience. Lupe and Randy Alle-Corliss introduce you to the most salient issues in the field as they facilitate the process of professional skill-building to help you become an effective helper. -- from back cover.
Social Media Marketing Mastery
Author: Graham Fisher
Publisher: Graham Fisher
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you want to learn the most up to date social media marketing strategies? If so then keep reading… Do you have problems getting started with social media marketing? Not knowing what social media platform you should focus on? Being unaware of how to create the most profitable ad campaigns? Or using marketing methods that are outdated and do not work? If you do, within this book many of the top leaders in the field have shared their knowledge on how to overcome these problems and more, most of which have 10+ years worth of experience. In Social Media Marketing Mastery, you will discover: - A simple trick you can do to increase sales with your ad campaigns profitably! - The best social media platforms you should be marketing on today! - The one method that you should follow when creating your customer profiles! - Why using these specific social media marketing software can help you in making money with social media marketing! - Understanding why some people will fail social media marketing and why others will not! - And much, much more. The proven methods and pieces of knowledge are so easy to follow. Even if you’ve never tried social media marketing before, you will still be able to get to a high level of success. So, if you don’t just want to transform your bank account but instead revolutionize your life, then click “Buy Now” in the top right corner NOW!
Meaning, Agency and the Making of a Social World
Author: Amitabha Das Gupta
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-18
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780367729936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores a vital but neglected element in the philosophy of social science - the complex nature of the social world. By a systematic philosophical engagement, it conceives the social world in terms of three basic concerns: epistemic, methodological and ethical. It examines how we cognize, study and ethically interact with the social world. As such, it demonstrates that a discussion of ethics is epistemically indispensable to the making of the social world. The book presents a new interpretation of philosophy of social science and addresses a series of related topics, including the role of the human subject in the context of scientific knowledge, objectivity, historicity, meaning and nature of social reality, social and literary theory, scientific methodology and fact/value dichotomy, human and collective agency and the limits to relativism. Examining each in turn, it argues that the social world is constructed through human actions and becomes significant because we ascribe meaning to it. This is organized around discussions on the meaning, agency and the making of a social world. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy of social science, political philosophy and sociology.
