278 Pages
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Routledge
300 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
288 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully on this phenomenon, this book discusses the three main questions associated with this subject in... Read more
List of illustrations, List of contributors, 1. Introduction: The reflexive re-turn, PART I. Reflexivity and pragmatism, 2. Inner speech and agency, 3. Cartesian privacy and Peircean interiority, 4. Pragmatist and hermeneutic reflections on the internal conversations that we are, PART II. Reflexivity and realism, 5. Human reflexivity in social realism: beyond the modern debate, 6. Reflexivity and the habitus, 7. Can reflexivity and habitus work in tandem?, 8. Reflexivity after modernity: from the viewpoint of relational sociology, PART III. Modes of reflexivity, 9. The agency of the weak: ethos, reflexivity and life strategies of Polish workers after the end of state socialism, 10. Emotion, and the silenced and short- circuited self, 11. Self talk and self reflection: a view from the US, PART IV. Reflexivity in production and consumption, 12. ‘Reflexive consumers’: a relational approach to consumption as a social practice, 13. Organizational use of information and communication technology and its impact on reflexivity, Index
Biography
Margaret S. Archer
