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The authors consider it a reflexive modernity because it opposes its earlier version, in the same way as the first modernity opposed feudal traditionalism. [3] As a consequence, the institutions of the first modernity are beginning to crumble in the face of economic and cultural globalization.
In social theory, reflexivity may occur when theories in a discipline should apply equally to the discipline itself; for example, in the case that the theories of knowledge construction in the field of sociology of scientific knowledge should apply equally to knowledge construction by sociology of scientific knowledge practitioners, or when the subject matter of a discipline should apply ...
The double hermeneutic is the theory, expounded by sociologist Anthony Giddens, that everyday "lay" concepts and those from the social sciences have a two-way relationship. [1] A common example is the idea of social class , a social-scientific category that has entered into wide use in society.
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens MAE (born 18 January 1938) is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year.
Sociologist Anthony Giddens adopted a post-empiricist frame for his theory, as he was concerned with the abstract characteristics of social relations. [according to whom?] This leaves each level more accessible to analysis via the ontologies which constitute the human social experience: space and time ("and thus, in one sense, 'history'.") [1]: 3 His aim was to build a broad social theory ...
The subject is constructed in late modernity against the backdrop of a fragmented world of competing and contrasting identities [6] and lifestyle cultures. [7] The framing matrix of the late modern personality is the ambiguous way the fluid social relations of late modernity impinge on the individual, producing a reflexive and multiple self. [8]
Some reflectivists (e.g. those of a post-structuralist persuasion) have argued that theorising should itself be understood as a practice, like the human practices that theories study; that it is an act (conscious or unconscious) of intervention into social reality, and that as such it is never "innocent" or "neutral", and there is a degree of ...
A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415081863. Wagner, Peter (2001). Theorizing Modernity. Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory. London: SAGE. ISBN 978-0761951476. Wagner, Peter (2008). Modernity as Experience and Interpretation: A New Sociology of Modernity. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456 ...