TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archer,Margaret S.
TI  - The reflexive imperative in late modernity
SN  - 9781139377546
AV  - HM686 .A73 2012 
U1  - 303.3/2303.32 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Socialization
KW  - Families
KW  - Reflection (Philosophy)
KW  - Nuclear families
KW  - Socialisation
KW  - Familles
KW  - Réflexion (Philosophie)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Sociology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Réflexion (philosophie)
KW  - ram
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Meta-reflexives: careers, commitments and seizing opportunities; Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The acceleration of morphogenesis and the extension of reflexivity; The present study; 1: A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative; Different ways of being reflexive; Modes of reflexivity and situational logics of action; Morphostasis, 'contextual continuity' and communicative reflexivity; Morphostasis/morphogenesis, 'contextual discontinuity' and autonomous reflexivity; Morphogenesis, 'contextual incongruity' and meta-reflexivity; Reflexivity and nascent morphogenesisConclusion; 2: The reflexive imperative versus habits and habitus; Introduction; The relevance of the morphostatic-morphogenetic continuum; Morphostasis-morphogenesis and contextual continuity, discontinuity and incongruity; The hegemony of habit depends upon societal morphostasis; Parity of importance between habit and reflexivity coincides with social formations which are simultaneously morphostatic and morphogenetic (i.e. situated towards the mid-point of the continuum); Increases in reflexivity depend upon morphogenesis; Can realism and habit be run in double harness?Three attempts to combine habitus and reflexivity; Empirical combination; Hybridizing habitus and reflexivity; Ontological and theoretical reconciliation; Socialization isn't what it used to be; Conclusion: turning the tables; 3: Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Traditional theories of socialization; The social conditions of the generalized other; Reconceptualizing socialization as 'relational reflexivity'; Relational goods in the family: their influence upon selection and reflexivity; Shaping a life and relational reflexivityStarting to shape a life -- defining what matters to us; The problem of configuring our concerns; Adducing a relational solution; Illustrating the relational solution; Conclusion; 4: Communicative reflexivity and its decline; Why the reflexive imperative cannot be avoided; Introducing the natal 'identifiers'; Is going to university an exciting opportunity?; Upon what does maintaining communicative reflexivity depend?; 'Identifiers' and family relations; The hard work of staying close; Home friends versus university friends; Career planning and the difficulties of shaping a lifeThe suspension of communicative reflexivity; Conclusion; 5: Autonomous reflexivity: the new spirit of social enterprise; Family lives: receiving 'mixed messages' and responding to them; Friendships and relationships: sources of diversion or deflection?; Careers: the new spirit of social enterprise; Conclusion: the future of autonomous reflexivity; 6: Meta-reflexives: critics of market and state; Family tensions and meta-reflexivity; Meta-reflexives and the challenge of friendship
N2  - What do young people want from life? This book shows how the 'internal conversation' guides individual choices
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