Agency and the Other: On the intersubjective roots of self-identity

Kögler, Hans-Herbert

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2010.03.010

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“…In the absence of an established professional discourse, it is suggested here that further research can look into whether a higher level of involvement in defining and legitimizing the knowledge that is important in practice needs to be accompanied by an increased level of selfhood, rather than client and market priorities only. For Kogler () the individual is, first and foremost, ethically indebted to himself or herself (put differently, a notion of complete selfhood cannot be conceptualized irrespective of a personal understanding and commitment to a personally defined ethical code). Kogler suggests that “core features of human agency include intentional causality” (“I want to go for a walk”), “conscious understanding thereof” (“I am aware that I am taking a walk”), “as well as the capacity to distinguish self, caused from externally caused phenomena” (“I decided to go for a walk; this was not inflicted on me”) (p. 47).…”

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Professionalism in Project Management: Redefining the Role of the Project Practitioner

Konstantinou

2015

Project Management Journal

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Professionalism in Project Management: Redefining the Role of the Project Practitioner

Konstantinou

2015

Project Management Journal

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“…Besides, network power is naturalised by language (and ideology) and human agency is always relationally mediated by symbolic backgrounds, internalised semiotic processes or embodied knowledge (like Bourdieu's Habitus 12 ), which function in between cognition and society (Koegler 2012). As Hans-Herbert Koegler sophisticatedly puts it, "human selves mutually relate to one another's beliefs and assumptions within a context constituted by a shared background of assumptions and practices.…”

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Reflections on a Critical Sociology of Networks

Tsekeris

2016

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Social life is rife with networks of any kind. Nowadays, sociological concerns for networks, relations, associations, processes, mobilities, and flows are intensive and emblematic. This reflection takes "networks" and their multiple products as starting points for a new sociological imagination. It hence outlines a set of current theoretical and methodological issues for approaching the wide and diverse field of the sociology of networks in a critical manner, beginning from the analytical distinction between the critical and the normativefunctionalist sociology of networks. The paper concludes with reference to contemporary digital society and the critical use of network data (Big Data), that is, ever-larger quantities of information generated by human communicative interactions in social networking platforms and other web activities.

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“…According to Harré (1995), the notion of agency has to be related to the position of the person within a social and moral order. Such a standpoint, emphasizing intersubjectivity as a fundamental constituent of agency, has been endorsed also by Gillespie (2012), Kögler (2012), Ogden (1986), andMarkova (2003). Agentic actors, while embedded in one situation, transcend this and take more general perspectives, including those of other actors.…”

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Displaying agency problems at the outset of psychotherapy

Wahlström¹,

Seilonen²

2018

Developments in Qualitative Psychotherapy Research

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In order to present him-or herself at the outset of psychotherapy as a credible client, the person needs to, on one hand, formulate a sense of lost agency in accounts of his/her life situation, and on the other, to present him-or herself as willing and able to take part in conversational selfexploration. In this study we looked in detail at how one person, seeking psychotherapy, constructed accounts that served this double function. We sought to develop the usefulness of the concept of agency as an integrative theoretical construct of core processes in therapy and introduced a model of five aspects of agentic vs. non-agentic presentation, developed and applied in an earlier study on clients in semi-mandatory counselling. The results show how those aspects -relationality, causal attribution, intentionality, historicity, and reflexivity -were present in, or lacking from, accounts given by this one client entering voluntary psychotherapy. We conclude that qualitative process research could benefit from considering loss of agency as one crucial object of psychotherapy and the ongoing discursive formulations and re-formulations of the client's more or less agentic positions as central to the process of therapy.

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Agency and the Other: On the intersubjective roots of self-identity

Cited by 34 publications

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Professionalism in Project Management: Redefining the Role of the Project Practitioner

Professionalism in Project Management: Redefining the Role of the Project Practitioner

Reflections on a Critical Sociology of Networks

Displaying agency problems at the outset of psychotherapy

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