Agency Explained
Agency may refer to:
Organizations
- Institution, governmental or others
- Advertising agency or marketing agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients
- Employment agency, a business that serves as a representative, acting on behalf of another
- Government agency, a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function
- International agency, an inter-governmental body
Social science
- Agency, the abstract principle that autonomous beings, agents, are capable of acting by themselves; see Autonomy
- Agency (law), a person acting on behalf of another person
- Agency (moral), capacity for making moral judgments
- Agency (philosophy), the capacity of an autonomous agent to act, relating to action theory in philosophy
- Agency (psychology), the ability to recognize or attribute agency in humans and non-human animals
- Agency (sociology), the ability of social actors to make independent choices, relating to action theory in sociology
- Agency and structure, ability of an individual to organize future situations and resource distribution
Places
Arts, entertainment and media
Film and television
Other uses
- Agency in Mormonism, "the privilege of choice... introduced by God"
- Agency security, securities issued by government-sponsored enterprises, often simply referred to as "Agency"
- Agency debt, US government-sponsored agency bonds
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