Human agency operates through individual, proxy, and collective modes

Evidence

Theories of human agency focus almost exclusively on agency exercised at the individual level. Social cognitive theory distinguishes among three modes of agency, each of which is founded on the belief in one’s ability to affect the course of events by one’s actions (Bandura, 1997). These modes of agency include individual, proxy, and collective agency. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 126

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Bandura’s tripartite framework of agency distinguishing social cognitive theory from individual-only accounts.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 126
• XREF: connects to: Agency is better understood as accomplished social action than as individual autonomous intent. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 114; Agency can be habitual, deliberate, or distributed across several co-acting social actors. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 115