Fully Unconscious and Prone to Habit: The Characteristics of Agency in the Structure and Agency Dialectic

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-65

  Akram, Sadiya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Habitus; Reflexivity; Structure; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874967606     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12002     Document Type: Article

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