In contrast to North America, where interest in the human actor as agent has been around longer, in Europe interest in human agency in the social sciences has been more recent, a consequence of the crisis and decline of structuralist and post-structuralist models of social action. However, both sides of the Atlantic appear to have in common a conception of agency which, to simplify slightly, stresses the conscious choices that unitary subjects make. In recent writings I have sought to question this model of agency and specifically the idea that agency is necessarily reflexive (Hoggett, 2000); that is, that we normally know why we do what we do at the time of doing it. Most recently I have attempted to develop a model of agency which could take account of the human agent as subject and object and as one which acted reflexively on some occasions and unreflexively on others (Hoggett. 2001).