agency

scientific organization

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is the realized capacity of people to act upon their world.

the realized capacity of people to act upon their world and not only to know about or give personal or intersubjective significance to it. .. the power of people to act purposively and reflectively, in more or less complex relationships with one another, to reiterate and remake the world in which they live, in circumstances where they may consider different courses of action possible and desirable, though not necessarily from the same point of view.' Consider human beings as producers, as instruments, and as products, to be the drivers, the vehicle and the recipients of acts of others. (Inden, 1990:23)

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