Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. He is the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and director of the International Social Theory Consortium.

• INTRODUCTIONSurviving (in) a World of Contradictions: Conceptualizing Agency between Autonomy and Heteronomy; Harry F. Dahms PART I. THE PERSISTENT PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AGENCY (SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY)Chapter 1. What Do We Need ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Analysis of Reasons for the Use of ‘Agency’ in Sociology; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıChapter 2. What Do We Use ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Empirical Examination of Its Uses in the Sociological Literature; Emre Amasyalı and Axel van den BergChapter 3. Curiously Footnoted Conceptualizations of Agency; Steven HitlinChapter 4. Agency between Freedom/Action and Determinism/Structure: Comment on van den Berg and Amasyalı; John Levi MartinChapter 5. The Great Agency Muddle; Stephen TurnerChapter 6. Why Do We Need to Discuss Agency?; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıPART II. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AUTONOMY (CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY)Chapter 7. Erik Olin Wright’s Selective Interpretation of Weber and Exploitation: A Discussion and Evaluation; Sandro SegreChapter 8. A Lost Horizon: Revisiting “The Societal Rationalization of the Economy” (Translator’s Introduction); Anthony J. KnowlesChapter 9. The Societal Rationalization of the Economy: Guaranteed Minimum Income as a Constitutional Right; Harry F. DahmsPART III. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF HETERONOMY (APPLIED CRITICAL THEORY)Chapter 10. Authoritarianism from Below: Why and How Trump Follows His Followers; David Norman Smith and Eric Allen HanleyChapter 11. Project 2025 Environmental Policy: Post-Factual Ecocatastrophe; Robert J. AntonioChapter 12. Filmmaking as Pedagogy and Praxis: An Interview with Garry Potter; Daniel M. Harrison

Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. He is the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and director of the International Social Theory Consortium.

• INTRODUCTIONSurviving (in) a World of Contradictions: Conceptualizing Agency between Autonomy and Heteronomy; Harry F. Dahms PART I. THE PERSISTENT PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AGENCY (SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY)Chapter 1. What Do We Need ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Analysis of Reasons for the Use of ‘Agency’ in Sociology; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıChapter 2. What Do We Use ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Empirical Examination of Its Uses in the Sociological Literature; Emre Amasyalı and Axel van den BergChapter 3. Curiously Footnoted Conceptualizations of Agency; Steven HitlinChapter 4. Agency between Freedom/Action and Determinism/Structure: Comment on van den Berg and Amasyalı; John Levi MartinChapter 5. The Great Agency Muddle; Stephen TurnerChapter 6. Why Do We Need to Discuss Agency?; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıPART II. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AUTONOMY (CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY)Chapter 7. Erik Olin Wright’s Selective Interpretation of Weber and Exploitation: A Discussion and Evaluation; Sandro SegreChapter 8. A Lost Horizon: Revisiting “The Societal Rationalization of the Economy” (Translator’s Introduction); Anthony J. KnowlesChapter 9. The Societal Rationalization of the Economy: Guaranteed Minimum Income as a Constitutional Right; Harry F. DahmsPART III. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF HETERONOMY (APPLIED CRITICAL THEORY)Chapter 10. Authoritarianism from Below: Why and How Trump Follows His Followers; David Norman Smith and Eric Allen HanleyChapter 11. Project 2025 Environmental Policy: Post-Factual Ecocatastrophe; Robert J. AntonioChapter 12. Filmmaking as Pedagogy and Praxis: An Interview with Garry Potter; Daniel M. Harrison

Harry F. Dahms is Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, and Co-Chair of the Committee on Social Theory at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. He is the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and director of the International Social Theory Consortium.

• INTRODUCTIONSurviving (in) a World of Contradictions: Conceptualizing Agency between Autonomy and Heteronomy; Harry F. Dahms PART I. THE PERSISTENT PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AGENCY (SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY)Chapter 1. What Do We Need ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Analysis of Reasons for the Use of ‘Agency’ in Sociology; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıChapter 2. What Do We Use ‘Agency’ for? A Critical Empirical Examination of Its Uses in the Sociological Literature; Emre Amasyalı and Axel van den BergChapter 3. Curiously Footnoted Conceptualizations of Agency; Steven HitlinChapter 4. Agency between Freedom/Action and Determinism/Structure: Comment on van den Berg and Amasyalı; John Levi MartinChapter 5. The Great Agency Muddle; Stephen TurnerChapter 6. Why Do We Need to Discuss Agency?; Axel van den Berg and Emre AmasyalıPART II. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF AUTONOMY (CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY)Chapter 7. Erik Olin Wright’s Selective Interpretation of Weber and Exploitation: A Discussion and Evaluation; Sandro SegreChapter 8. A Lost Horizon: Revisiting “The Societal Rationalization of the Economy” (Translator’s Introduction); Anthony J. KnowlesChapter 9. The Societal Rationalization of the Economy: Guaranteed Minimum Income as a Constitutional Right; Harry F. DahmsPART III. THE PROBLEM AND CHALLENGE OF HETERONOMY (APPLIED CRITICAL THEORY)Chapter 10. Authoritarianism from Below: Why and How Trump Follows His Followers; David Norman Smith and Eric Allen HanleyChapter 11. Project 2025 Environmental Policy: Post-Factual Ecocatastrophe; Robert J. AntonioChapter 12. Filmmaking as Pedagogy and Praxis: An Interview with Garry Potter; Daniel M. Harrison