Social Indicators Movement and Human Agency: Comment on Land and Michalos
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1553-0
Abstract: This paper offers a critical comment on Land and Michalos (Soc Indic Res, 2017) and suggests a relay perspective to see the past achievements and future directions in the social indicators movement. In accordance with… read more here.
Keywords: indicators movement; social indicators; land michalos; human agency ... See more keywords
Human domestication and the roles of human agency in human evolution
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DOI: 10.1007/s40656-020-00315-0
Abstract: Are humans a domesticated species? How is this issue related to debates on the roles of human agency in human evolution? This article discusses four views on human domestication: (1) Darwin’s view; (2) the view… read more here.
Keywords: domestication; human domestication; human evolution; human agency ... See more keywords
Choosing Our Criminological Future: Reservations About Human Agency as an Organizing Concept
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DOI: 10.1007/s40865-017-0070-9
Abstract: PurposeAlthough perhaps useful in inspiring creative inquiries, this essay argues that human agency should not be embraced as criminology’s single background assumption or be its organizing concept. Positivist study of causality cannot be avoided if… read more here.
Keywords: choosing criminological; organizing concept; criminology; criminological future ... See more keywords
Exceptionalist naturalism: Human agency and the causal order
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DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1251472
Abstract: This paper addresses a fundamental question in folk metaphysics: How do we ordinarily view human agency? According to the transcendence account, we view human agency as standing outside of the causal order and imbued with… read more here.
Keywords: view human; causal order; agency; human agency ... See more keywords