Fractured reflexives

Casualties of the reflexive imperative

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ID20041825
AuthorsMelanie S Archer (0000-0002-4632-775X, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages249-291
Publication date2012-05-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueReflexive Imperative in Late Modernity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139108058.008
OpenAlexW969367724
ISBN9781139108058
LanguageEN
References cited12

The rapid replacement of modernity's ‘situational logic of competition’ by the ‘situational logic of opportunity’ undoubtedly places more of a burden on subjects themselves, their familial relationships, natal relational contexts and their chosen social networks. This is because routinely competitive responses by groups, classes and associations are decreasingly appropriate for confronting novelty, as was maintained in Chapter 2. At the same time, ‘opportunity’ itself is met by a variety of responses. For some (the communicatives), it can be partly but not entirely evaded, for others (the autonomous), it can be seized upon and fallibly exploited, and for yet others (the meta-reflexives), it presents a new horizon of novel possibilities. However, not everyone can practise one of these three reflexive responses towards the ‘logic of opportunity’, all of which seek to match life outcomes to subjects’ life concerns. These are the fractured reflexives

Reflexivity · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · History · Political and Economic history of UK and US

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