Example of Structure and Agency
A.) Student Politics
Having a voter turnout of 30% percent of the population in Supreme Student Council (SSC) is something to be look up too. But why do really students vote or not? Structure and Agency could somehow explain the phenomenon in how people shape their human behavior.
The Structure debate is the recurrent patterned arrangements which influence or limit the choices and opportunities available. However, structure could be your friends, classmates, teachers and even circumstances. In the case of the act of students voting, structure has been part of influencing their choice or behavior, knowing that election has been considered a moral obligation to do inside or outside of the school. Your friends and classmates could be the structure they have the influence over you from not voting or seeing them voting may pursue you from voting too. Teachers could be the structure in influencing the voters turnout in SSC election, they have power over their students to vote especially when they require or gives credit to those who vote on the election. Circumstances, basically circumstances has a power to influence your decision or limit your choices and one of this is the busy schedule of the students especially that election day was conducted near to the final exam this might be one of the reasons why there is a small number of voters turnout in Supreme Student Council election.
The Agency debate is the capacity of the individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. In contrast to the low voters turnout of Supreme Student Council (SSC) the students itself are the agency. They chose not to vote because of their own interest such as not voting because of the long waiting to be able to vote, to do something more important than voting in Supreme Student Council (SSC) election and even laziness. They may vote because they appreciate the power of voting such as the fulfilling feeling in going to the precinct and vote for those who they think
Having a voter turnout of 30% percent of the population in Supreme Student Council (SSC) is something to be look up too. But why do really students vote or not? Structure and Agency could somehow explain the phenomenon in how people shape their human behavior.
The Structure debate is the recurrent patterned arrangements which influence or limit the choices and opportunities available. However, structure could be your friends, classmates, teachers and even circumstances. In the case of the act of students voting, structure has been part of influencing their choice or behavior, knowing that election has been considered a moral obligation to do inside or outside of the school. Your friends and classmates could be the structure they have the influence over you from not voting or seeing them voting may pursue you from voting too. Teachers could be the structure in influencing the voters turnout in SSC election, they have power over their students to vote especially when they require or gives credit to those who vote on the election. Circumstances, basically circumstances has a power to influence your decision or limit your choices and one of this is the busy schedule of the students especially that election day was conducted near to the final exam this might be one of the reasons why there is a small number of voters turnout in Supreme Student Council election.
The Agency debate is the capacity of the individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. In contrast to the low voters turnout of Supreme Student Council (SSC) the students itself are the agency. They chose not to vote because of their own interest such as not voting because of the long waiting to be able to vote, to do something more important than voting in Supreme Student Council (SSC) election and even laziness. They may vote because they appreciate the power of voting such as the fulfilling feeling in going to the precinct and vote for those who they think