http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/nicole-stephens-on-%e2%80%9cchoice-social-class-and-agency%e2%80%9d/ Sat, 25 May 2013 20:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/nicole-stephens-on-%e2%80%9cchoice-social-class-and-agency%e2%80%9d/#comment-16054 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:00:58 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9600#comment-16054 [...] Choice, Social Class, & Agency – Via Situationist – Across disciplines we tend to assume that choice is a fundamental or “basic” unit of human behavior, and that behavior is a product of individual choice. In my talk, I will present a series of lab and field studies that question these assumptions about behavior, and suggest that these assumptions reflect primarily the experiences of college-educated, or middle-class, Americans, who tend to have access to a wealth of choices and an array of quality options among which to choose. I will discuss the implications of these assumptions for the (mis)understanding of behavior across diverse contexts. [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/nicole-stephens-on-%e2%80%9cchoice-social-class-and-agency%e2%80%9d/#comment-16050 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:52:02 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9600#comment-16050 [...] Choice, Social Class, & Agency – Via Situationist – Across disciplines we tend to assume that choice is a fundamental or “basic” unit of human behavior, and that behavior is a product of individual choice. In my talk, I will present a series of lab and field studies that question these assumptions about behavior, and suggest that these assumptions reflect primarily the experiences of college-educated, or middle-class, Americans, who tend to have access to a wealth of choices and an array of quality options among which to choose. I will discuss the implications of these assumptions for the (mis)understanding of behavior across diverse contexts. [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/nicole-stephens-on-%e2%80%9cchoice-social-class-and-agency%e2%80%9d/#comment-16039 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:03:09 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=9600#comment-16039 [...] Hanna shared Nicole Stephens on “Choice, Social Class, and Agency”. [...]

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