But its appearance during evolution led to an unexpected possibility: attributing agency where no agent exists.
However, this does not foreclose the possibility of agency, because we occupy multiple social identities (e.g., a woman might be a worker, a mother, lesbian, Mexican, and so forth).
Indeed, during the rise of fascism in the Second World War and the commodified culture afterwards, the Frankfurt School became skeptical of the possibility of agency, as the subjective conditions for social transformation were on their view undermined.
However, with the possibility that agency can be generated through the unfamiliarity of a new field, as the exemplars of online practice identified above seem to be also showing, Yang Yang's recommendation of a non-traditional approach grounded in explicit pedagogy seems to provide a 'workable' option for curriculum construction in the proposed coding program.
The FCC's report was the basis for a commission ruling the same month that Internet providers weren't deploying broadband in a reasonable and timely fashion, as required by law, opening up the possibility the agency may impose regulations to require providers to upgrade and expand their networks faster.
Such examples suggest what Morson (1996) calls "foreshadowing": a temporality in which the future has already been decided, thereby removing possibility and agency from the present.
Central to identifying possibilities for agency in Bourdieu's work and for our proposed coding programm is the notion of habitus.
Importantly, we also draw upon Bourdieu to understand the possibilities for agency that might be engaged by the disadvantaged in entering a field with which they may have had little to no previous contact.
Though conceptualised in the context of elite school students taking up the 'pole opposite to the position to which they were (by virtual of their existing habitus) promised and which was promised to them' (p. 184), the concept holds that the greater the (relational) distance between the two (fields)—the new and the old the greater possibilities for agency (p. 184).
He went on to detail national discussions and media coverage, legislative possibilities, federal agency practices, protection of civil rights workers.
