Human agency and the evolutionary dynamics of culture

T Dietz, TR Burns - Acta Sociologica, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
human history, we believe selection and other evolutionary processes acting on culture
are much more salient in explaining socio-cultural variation and dynamics (see Blute 1987). …

Human agency, network dynamics and regional development: The behavioural principles of new path creation

R Huggins, P Thompson - Regional Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… It is argued that human agency and the network dynamics through which these agents interact
… of collective forms of agency based on strong strategic networks underpinned by a shared …

[PDF][PDF] Determining An Actor's Network Capacity And Network Utilization: A Markov Model Of Human Agency In Social Networks

B Sundararajan - Dalhousie University, 2008 - academia.edu
… for the temporal evolution of social networks. They report that … the network, and that reflect
dynamics inherent in a particular social relation. Any one actor cannot control these dynamics, …

Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking

A Dwiartama, C Rosin - Ecology and Society, 2014 - JSTOR
… , we need to account not only for human agency but also for that inherent to the materiality …
SES in terms of system dynamics, the understanding of these dynamics is still constrained by …

Network agency

S Tasselli, M Kilduff - Academy of Management Annals, 2021 - journals.aom.org
The question of agency has been neglected in social network research, in part because the
structural approach to social relations removes consideration of individual volition and action…

Network analysis, culture, and the problem of agency

M Emirbayer, J Goodwin - American journal of sociology, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
… "network dynamics" just how these patterns of social relationships came about in the first
place. "Elite marriage and economic networks,… such a capacity for human agency does not-and …

Bringing agency back into network research: Constrained agency and network action

R Gulati, SB Srivastava - … on organizational social networks, 2014 - emerald.com
… Social theorists have long debated the relative contributions of human agency and structure
to social interactions and network dynamics (Bourdieu, 1986; Giddens, 1984; Sewell, 1992). …

[PDF][PDF] Agency and knowledge problems in network dynamics: Brokers and bridges in innovative interorganizational relationships

JP Davis - Sloan School of Management Working Paper, 2010 - academia.edu
… how managers overcome agency and knowledge problems that curtail network dynamics
in … paper develops an altercentric account of network dynamics that explains how managers …

[图书][B] Agent-based modeling and network dynamics

A Namatame, SH Chen - 2016 - books.google.com
… To understand how this diffusion process works, and how it is manifest in the interconnected
actions of massive numbers of individuals, we need to study the network dynamics of …

Searching for realism, structure and agency in Actor Network Theory1

D Elder‐Vass - The British journal of sociology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… the dynamic of structural change. In these models, structures are constantly made and re-made
through human agency… So human agents and non-human objects are so obvious that we …