My name is Marzena Wawrzaszek. I am a transfer student majoring in Corporate Communications. My favorite book is Mindset – The New Psychology of Success, the reason this is my favorite book is because it changed my perspective on life and my actions. I learned a lot about the person I want to be and how to work towards achieving what I want. I love reading psychological books because they contain information you can carry with you for life.
“We tend to link agency to cultural autonomy and to measure cultural autonomy in terms of society’s ability to protect its cultural identity from being watered down or erased by alien cultural forms, but every culture is always shaped by other cultures and agencies has more to do with the intelligent and imaginative negotiation of cross-cultural contact than with avoiding such contact. Agency from this point of view is a function of that negotiation is not its victim.”
I understand what Paul Jay is talking about when it comes to culture but I got a little confused when he mentioned agency. I am not sure what agency he is referring to and what he is trying to prove.
