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  2. Agency (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    In certain philosophical traditions (particularly those established by Hegel and Marx), human agency is a collective, historical dynamic, rather than a function arising out of individual behavior. Hegel's Geist and Marx's universal class are idealist and materialist expressions of this idea of humans treated as social beings, organized to act ...

  3. Agency (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Collective agency occurs when people act together, such as a social movement. Hewson also identifies three properties of human beings that give rise to agency: intentionality, power, and rationality. Human beings act with intention and are goal oriented.

  4. Collective intentionality - Wikipedia

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    In the philosophy of mind, collective intentionality characterizes the intentionality that occurs when two or more individuals undertake a task together. Examples include two individuals carrying a heavy table up a flight of stairs or dancing a tango.

  5. Collective action theory - Wikipedia

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    The collective action theory was first published by Mancur Olson in 1965. Olson argues that any group of individuals attempting to provide a public good has difficulty doing so efficiently. Olson argues that any group of individuals attempting to provide a public good has difficulty doing so efficiently.

  6. Structure and agency - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences there is a standing debate over the primacy of structure or agency in shaping human behaviour. Structure is the recurrent patterned arrangements which influence or limit the choices and opportunities available. [1] Agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. [1]

  7. Assemblage (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Assemblage (from French: agencement, "a collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled") is a philosophical approach for studying the ontological diversity of agency, which means redistributing the capacity to act from an individual to a socio-material network of people, things, and narratives.

  8. Collective - Wikipedia

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    A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective. [ citation needed ] Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, though they can be.

  9. Collective action - Wikipedia

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    The term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone. The ideal solution is then to undertake this as a collective action, the cost of which is shared.