agentic

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   That behaves like an agent

   That behaves like an agent: able to express or expressing agency or control on one's own behalf or on the behalf of another.

   • From the perspective of the previous chapter, to change from a patient to an agent is to adopt or elaborate an agentic plot that the person lives (Howard 1989).
   • The next section examines ways in which network and partnership management may be able to reconcile self-organization with agentic intervention.
2. 2

   That obeys authority (introduced in Milgram's theory).

   • Most individuals can be easily triggered to enter, and be comfortable in the agentic state.
3. 3

   Having to do with performance, or achieving status.

   • If helping is a variation on the more general agentic theme of self-assertion and display, one might expect that power motivation would predict other forms of agentic striving in friendship experiences.
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   1. 4

      Having agency

      Having agency; able to make independent decisions in pursuit of a goal.

      • Billy was agentic in his learning and didn't only do what the teacher told him.
      • In agentic cognition the ego is a cognitive agent with tasks to accomplish.

The neighborhood

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