Download or read book Initiative: Human Agency and Society written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, however, we possess the capacity to take the initiative and determine on our own some of what we do, then we are responsible and often culpable when we act. Consequently, ethics and law become bona fide concerns in our lives, and the implications are everywhere in evidence - in personal relations, politics, criminal law, social work, and public policy.