Search results for "personal agency"

Constructions of Agency in Accounts of Drunk Driving at the Outset of Semi-Mandatory Counseling

2015

Convicted drunk drivers, in accounts of their offenses, rarely display qualities of agency that would contribute to a favorable outcome in counseling. Instead, the discursive and rhetorical aim of the accounts is often to evade responsibility and ownership of the offending behavior. Such disclaim of personal agency can be achieved in various ways in the narration of drunk driving (DD) incidences. This study examined how five aspects of agentic presentation (reflexivity, historicity, intentionality, causal attribution, and relationality) were present in or missing from such accounts. It was found that a tentative model of (non)agentic display based on those five aspects could differentiate b…

Personal Agency and State Building in Sweden (1560-1720)

2017

This article has no abstract. peerReviewed

Burgomasters of Stockholm as Agents of the Crown and Self-Interest (1590-1640)

2017

This article has no abstract. peerReviewed

Servants of the Crown or Trustees of the People? : Personal Agency Among the Local Clergy (1550-1610)

2017

This article has no abstract. peerReviewed

Suomalaiset kirkkoherrat Ruotsin valtion rakentajina 1550-luvulta 1610-luvulle

2019

This dissertation and the four separate articles contained therein examine Finnish pastors as builders of the Swedish state from the 1550s to the 1610s. The subject is studied from three perspectives. First, the relationship between the crown and the church (and the pastors) is explored. Second, the study investigates the relationship between the pastors and local communities. The third aspect connects the first two as it sheds light on the pastors’ role as intermediators between local communities and the crown. These perspectives provide the essential frameworks in which state build-ing took place: the centers of the realm, the local communities, and interaction be-tween the two. The sourc…

Study Abroad, The State and Personal Agency (1640-1700)

2017

Royal Mayors (1620-1700) : The Bane of the Burghers, the Crown’s Scourge, Effective Developers of Urban Government?

2017

This article has no abstract. peerReviewed

Personal Agency at the Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720

2017