Agentivity

It is also connected with what in linguacultural studies is defined as “non-agentivity” in the Russian cultural outlook: it is a tendency to resignation and submissiveness, lack of emphasis on the individual as an “achiever”, especially in the material, “external” sense.

Non-agentivity - the feeling than human being are not in control of their lives and that their control over events is limited; a tendency of fatalism, resignation, submissivenes; a lack of emphasis on the individual as an autonomous agent, "achiever", and controller of events.

Agency

Сlose concepts

Productive agency

Locus of control

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