Examining concepts of power and agency in research with young people

Concepts of power and agency have become increasingly prominent in the youth studies literatures and related research. A focus of the research to date has been an examination of how a better understanding of young people's lived experiences can reveal possibilities for young people's agency to emerge. Despite increased interest in the term agency, much less has been said about how the concept is defined and recognized in research with young people, including what the concept may entail but crucially, how the term is linked to and underpinned by the related concept of power. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of power and agency as utilized in research with young people. The discussion that follows identifies the possible ways in which different theoretical positions shape our understanding of how power and agency are investigated and how these understandings inform the ways we interpret young people's perspectives and actions as holding potential for ‘agency’. Drawing on recent empirical examples, we consider how varying interpretations of power and/or agency shape not only the ways in which young people's agentic experiences are theorized (and the related ontological and epistemological assumptions these positions imply) but also the presumed effects of that agency.     

Johnson's Differentiation Theory: Is It Really Empirically Supported?

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经济学家与经济理论研究

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20世纪80年代以来,古代文学研究与意识形态疏离,回归文学本位。随着社会及文学研究的发展,古代文学研究应有第二次回归,由纯文学的研究进入杂文学的研究,由狭义文学研究进入广义的文学或大文学的研究,提倡广谱研究,以期突破古文学的研究困境,实现学术突围。文学地理学研究方法的尝试应用,说明这种学术突围的必要性与可能性。     

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