Making our Way through the World
Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility
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- Author: Margaret S. Archer, University of Warwick
- Date Published: June 2007
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- isbn: 9780521696937
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How do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through 'internal conversations' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this 'inner-dialogue' and can report upon it. However, little research has been conducted on 'internal conversations' and how they mediate between our ultimate concerns and the social contexts we confront. In this book, Margaret Archer argues that reflexivity is progressively replacing routine action in late modernity, shaping how ordinary people make their way through the world. Using interviewees' life and work histories, she shows how 'internal conversations' guide the occupations people seek, keep or quit; their stances towards structural constraints and enablements; and their resulting patterns of social mobility.
Read more- Deals with popular but unexamined assumptions made by leading theorists, such as Bourdieu and Beck
- Discusses how reflexivity changes from high modernity to nascent globalisation
- Theoretical points are made through accessible narratives
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- Date Published: June 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521696937
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. Reflexivity: the unacknowledged condition of social life
Part I:
1. Reflexivity's biographies
2. Reflexivity in action
3. Reflexivity and working at social positioning
Part II: Introduction: how 'contexts' and 'concerns' shape internal conversations
4. Communicative reflexives: working at staying-put
5. Autonomous reflexives: upward and outward bound
6. Meta-reflexives: moving on
Part III:
7. Internal conversations and their outworks
Conclusion. Reflexivity's future
Methodological appendix.
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