Psychology and the Question of Agency by Martin, Jack

Psychology and the Question of Agency (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780791457252)

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Psychology and the Question of Agency by Martin, Jack

Psychology and the Question of Agency

$95.00
Psychology and the Question of Agency by Martin, Jack

Psychology and the Question of Agency

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception of human agency. Instead, it oscillates between two differing conceptions of agency that are equally untenable: a scientistic, reductive approach to choice and action, and an instrumental approach that celebrates a romantic notion of free will. This book examines theoretical, philosophical psychology and argues for a historically and socioculturally situated human capacity for choosing and acting in ways not entirely determined by culture and/or biology. The authors present a detailed developmental theory of how agentic capability emerges from the pre-reflective activity of humans in a real physical and social world. Implications of the theory are considered for psychological research and practice, and for the broader socio-political impact of disciplinary psychology in Western liberal democracies.

Author: Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, Janice Thompson
ISBN-10: 0791457257
ISBN-13: 9780791457252
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2003
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.44h x 5.98w x 0.61d
By Jack Martin
By Jack Martin
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Jack Martin is the Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. He is the coeditor (with Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand) of Research as Praxis: Lessons From Programmatic Research in Therapeutic Psychology, and the author of several books including (with Jeff Sugarman) The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint, published by SUNY Press.

Jeff Sugarman is Assistant Professor of Education and Janice Thompson is Associate Dean of Education at Simon Fraser University.

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