The transactional model of human behavior presupposes that people act as agents to control to assert control over their lives and to thwart undesirable circumstances. As such, goals, skills and behaviors serve as vehicles for affecting a desired outcome. According Bandura (1997, as cited in Kim, 2006), “[s]triving for control over life circumstances permeates almost everything people do throughout the life course because it provides innumerable personal and social benefits” (p. 31). Hence, actions, when viewed transitionally are based on incentives and the belief that the energy expended toward a goal will truly function to actualize the desired outcome.
In comparison to general psychology, the transactional model stresses that individuals …show more content…
As identified by Bandura (as cited as Kim, 2006), there are four features of human agency within the transactional model: “intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness” (p. 32). Personal and subjective factors such as beliefs, symbols, specific goals and intentions operate as a linkage between human behavior and efforts to control ones’ environment. Additionally, an individual’s perceptions and interpretations of an action or event, impacts their point of view, motives and by extension influences behavior. Based on the transactional paradigm, the most principal means employed to assert control over a situation, include direct control; primary and collective and indirect control; secondary and proxy (Kim, 2006, pp. 31-33). Environmental variables, context, the dynamics of an individuals assessed modes of achieving a certain outcome determines the applicability of a particular control …show more content…
Women, War and Peace (2011), depicts the efforts of two Afro-Colombian women from the southwestern towns of Cauca and La Toma, as they work to protect the land rights of their gold-rich community from industrial mining operations. Even though the property rights of Afro-Colombians were recognized in 1993, the looming presence of foreign investors, paramilitaries and the lack of legislative enforcement, the community remains vulnerable and faced with the possibility of extinction. The two activists feature in the film are at the forefront of the social and political efforts to perverse the lives, culture and property of the Colombian Afro-Columbian
In comparison to general psychology, the transactional model stresses that individuals …show more content…
As identified by Bandura (as cited as Kim, 2006), there are four features of human agency within the transactional model: “intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness” (p. 32). Personal and subjective factors such as beliefs, symbols, specific goals and intentions operate as a linkage between human behavior and efforts to control ones’ environment. Additionally, an individual’s perceptions and interpretations of an action or event, impacts their point of view, motives and by extension influences behavior. Based on the transactional paradigm, the most principal means employed to assert control over a situation, include direct control; primary and collective and indirect control; secondary and proxy (Kim, 2006, pp. 31-33). Environmental variables, context, the dynamics of an individuals assessed modes of achieving a certain outcome determines the applicability of a particular control …show more content…
Women, War and Peace (2011), depicts the efforts of two Afro-Colombian women from the southwestern towns of Cauca and La Toma, as they work to protect the land rights of their gold-rich community from industrial mining operations. Even though the property rights of Afro-Colombians were recognized in 1993, the looming presence of foreign investors, paramilitaries and the lack of legislative enforcement, the community remains vulnerable and faced with the possibility of extinction. The two activists feature in the film are at the forefront of the social and political efforts to perverse the lives, culture and property of the Colombian Afro-Columbian