Agency Scaffolding: From Anthropocentric to Relational Action. A Critical Review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Values are in dialectic co-construction. Values are relational, that is, they emerge when two or more forces engage with one another to bring forth plural realities. Similarly, as an emergent property of the encounter between forces, social agency, or capacity to act, is not an exclusive domain of the human. This review paper is a critical approximation to the Agency Theory (AT) in the social sciences today. (1) We review AT in several scholarly fields to then (2) discuss critical approaches in race and actor-network theory; then, (3) we probe AT in ecological economics with a focus on collective action and (4) propose a relational concept of agency based on this critical review. (5) To illustrate a paradigm shift in social agency—from anthropocentric to relational—we close with a call for “a pedagogy of care and the defense of life” beyond human-only approaches to social agency.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".