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Attributing Deflections to Explain Agency

Sage, Adam J.

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2009, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Sociology and Criminology.
This study seeks to advance the agency-structure debate by utilizing Affect Control Theory’s concept of deflection to explain the circumstances under which observers will make internal versus external attributions. A sample of 212 undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university were sampled. Participants were asked to read a scenario and make observer attributions of the actor in each scenario. This study uses deflection as a “variable attribution device” in an attempt to explain how observers prescribe agency to actors.
William Kalkhoff, PhD (Committee Chair)
Richard Serpe, PhD (Committee Member)
Amy Kroska, PhD (Committee Member)
28 p.

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  • Sage, A. J. (2009). Attributing Deflections to Explain Agency [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259181941

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sage, Adam. Attributing Deflections to Explain Agency. 2009. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259181941.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sage, Adam. "Attributing Deflections to Explain Agency." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1259181941

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)