Choices in A Modern First World Society Agency is the ability to have a choice to make and the way one acts upon that choice. So, it is being presented with a decision and carrying out that decision in a way that one deems fit. According to Jean Paul Sartre, he states that each decision one makes or does not make is still a choice that reveals an aspect of oneself to the rest of society. He links a relationship between agency and choices. The Bystander Apathy Experiment depicts conformity and the pressures from our peers as one makes a choice. Agency relates to the concepts of choices and bystander apathy experiment through the reading in the Explorable, the video of John Paul Sartre and The Hunger Games.
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A helpless young lady named Kitty Genovese was murdered while her neighbors collectively assumed that one of the other neighbors was going to contact the police (“Bystander Apathy Experiment – The Case of Kitty Genovese Explained”). Every individual felt that since they were not witnessing this alone that someone else would make the decision to call and take the initiative to aid this young woman. The concept of bystander apathy correlates to the ideas of agency and choices by providing a choice and receiving a response based on the thought that someone else would do it. This is correlated to conformity where “individuals are less likely to help in an emergency when other people are present” versus on their own (“Bystander Apathy Experiment – The Case of Kitty Genovese Explained”). When Primrose was called, none but her sister jumped at a chance to take her place as a volunteer (The Hunger Games). The rest of the group followed group norms in being filled with relief that none of them were called but pity for the child that would end up taking one of their places. The society had conformed to the Capital societal behaviors of women and men being separated – each gender dressed in differently dull colors. Women wore mostly white clothing to symbolize their purity and cleanliness to be in the presence of the Capital’s representative and their guards. The men wore gray clothing which was a symbol of their lives and day-to-day activities. Each gender has conformed to the respectable way to appear, and act in front of the guards surrounding them. The authority’s pressures changed the behavior of the individuals by instilling order and power to match societal
The relationship between agency and …show more content…
A helpless young lady named Kitty Genovese was murdered while her neighbors collectively assumed that one of the other neighbors was going to contact the police (“Bystander Apathy Experiment – The Case of Kitty Genovese Explained”). Every individual felt that since they were not witnessing this alone that someone else would make the decision to call and take the initiative to aid this young woman. The concept of bystander apathy correlates to the ideas of agency and choices by providing a choice and receiving a response based on the thought that someone else would do it. This is correlated to conformity where “individuals are less likely to help in an emergency when other people are present” versus on their own (“Bystander Apathy Experiment – The Case of Kitty Genovese Explained”). When Primrose was called, none but her sister jumped at a chance to take her place as a volunteer (The Hunger Games). The rest of the group followed group norms in being filled with relief that none of them were called but pity for the child that would end up taking one of their places. The society had conformed to the Capital societal behaviors of women and men being separated – each gender dressed in differently dull colors. Women wore mostly white clothing to symbolize their purity and cleanliness to be in the presence of the Capital’s representative and their guards. The men wore gray clothing which was a symbol of their lives and day-to-day activities. Each gender has conformed to the respectable way to appear, and act in front of the guards surrounding them. The authority’s pressures changed the behavior of the individuals by instilling order and power to match societal