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Reconceptualizing Agency within the Life Course: The Power of Looking Ahead
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Empirical treatments of agency have not caught up with theoretical explication; empirical projects almost always focus on concurrent beliefs about one's ability to act successfully without sufficiently attending to temporality. The authors suggest that understanding the modern life course necessitates a multidimensional understanding of subjective agency involving (a) perceived capacities and (b) perceived life chances, or expectations about what life holds in store. The authors also suggest that a proper understanding of agency's potential power within a life course necessitates moving beyond the domain-specific expectations more typical of past sociological work. Using the Youth Development Study, the authors employ a scale of general life expectations in adolescence to explore the potential influence of a general sense of optimistic life expectations in addition to the traditional approach on a range of important outcomes.
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- Authors
- Hitlin, S., & Kirkpatrick Johnson, M.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2015-03
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1429-1472
- ISSN
- 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5390
- OpenAlex
- W1817534495
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 116
- FWCI
- 48.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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