"My attitude made me do it": Considering the agency of attitudes

Human Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-101

  van Vuuren, Mark ^a   Cooren, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Agency; Attitudes; Responsibility; Undecidability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951978429     PISSN: 01638548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-010-9137-x     Document Type: Article

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