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Drawing upon qualitative data gathered through fieldwork in three bail hostels, this paper outlines the role of substance use (illegal drugs, alcohol, prescribed medication and food) in the lives of women awaiting trial. Their use of substance is explored within the context of the multiple and...
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habitus through certain types of focus groups. An account of the relationship between structure, individual and collective … agency is developed to provide a grounding for the methodological argument. The article suggests, on the basis of this …
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Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely … examination of structure, not exclusively place blame on agency failures. (98 words) … did not appear earlier because the economic structure was different then, then again attention must return to an …
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problems in social theory: (i) the epistemological significance of structural principles vis-a-vis agency; and (ii) the …
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the rescue by allowing agency to be read-off from subcultural assemblages rather than explored in practice. It also …
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Canada, like many other developed countries, has implemented a temporary foreign workers' programme, ostensibly to address temporary labour shortages within its domestic labour market. However, there is growing evidence of the programme being used to meet longer-term labour demands, with...
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of expenditures is not so much the migration experience itself, as the socio-economic structure of sending communities …
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regarding the degree of agency an individual possesses informs the theoretical structure from which any approach to economics is … therefore directly influences the degree of agency the individual is able to exercise. Moreover, whatever assumptions are made … built. This paper seeks to examine and compare the role of agency in heterodox economic thought and proposes that the theme …
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agency and structures and that of role of rationality and norms in explaining individual social behaviour. Individuals are … seen to be acting according to «conventions» that structure their interaction and that are cognitive and interpretative …
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of agency that facilitate or limit transformative action in the context of critical life events. Where individuals are … four aspects considered, namely temporal dimensions of agency, individuals’ biographical experience, structural and …
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