Showing 41 - 50 of 14,803
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005588822
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619598
problems in social theory: (i) the epistemological significance of structural principles vis-a-vis agency; and (ii) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777900
the rescue by allowing agency to be read-off from subcultural assemblages rather than explored in practice. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144991
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119942
of expenditures is not so much the migration experience itself, as the socio-economic structure of sending communities … development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119944
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133396
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510647
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137212
This article aims to begin to fill a gap in the literature by offering a comprehensive critique of Douglass North’s work with emphasis on his historical studies. After a brief overview of his theoretical contributions, a closer scrutiny of his theory in its application to history is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011137439