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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear but pages are free from notes and in great condition. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> THE SOCIETIES OF TODAY are undergoing extraordi- nary informational social and technological trans- formations. Wrenching social changes are not new over the course of history but what is new is their magnitude and accelerated pace. Rapid cycles of drastic changes require continuous personal and so- cial renewals. These challenging realities place a premium on people’s sense of efficacy to shape their future. Much contemporary theorizing depicts peo- ple as onlooking hosts of internal mechanisms or- chestrated by environmental events. They are stripped of any sense of agency. People are proactive aspiring organisms who have a hand in shaping their own lives and the social systems that organize guide and regulate the affairs of their society. This book explores the exercise of human agency through people’s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their actions. It reviews in considerable detail the origins of efficacy beliefs their structure the processes through which they af- fect human well-being and accomplishments and how these processes can be developed and enlisted for human betterment. Perceived self-efficacy plays a pivotal role in a multifaceted social cognitive theory but it is not the sole determinant of action. This book documents the many ways in which efficacy beliefs operate in concert with other sociocognitive determi- nants in governing human adaptation and change. (MP)