Thucydides self-consciously invented a new form of inquiry, which can reasonably be called “social and political science.” His intellectual goal was a new understanding of power and its relationship to human agency and the deep structures of human society. His understanding of agency and structure is in some ways reminiscent of the reflexivity theory developed by Anthony

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The basic premise of this proposed article is that agency is an evolved trait. Agency in nature exists to the degree that organisms can act independently from their environment, and is here considered to be the result of an evolutionary process that takes places hierarchically and in multiple dimensions. The article proposes further discussion on the need to create appropriate simulation method...

This paper discusses the concept of the behavior setting as applied to questions of structure and agency in coming to terms with the influence aspects of leadership. It suggests that the relationship between leader– follower behavior and the organizations in which they are embedded is similar to the paradoxical relationship of agency and structure in social theory. A brief discussion of agency/...