Making Our Way Through the World

Informationen zum Autor Margaret S. Archer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She has written over twenty books including Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation (2003) and Being Human: The Problem of Agency (Cambridge, 2000). Klappentext Examines 'internal conversations' and their influence on how people make their way through the world. Zusammenfassung In this book! Margaret Archer examines the reflexive 'internal conversations' most people have with themselves! and their influence on how people make their way through the world. She argues that human reflexivity mediates between our personal concerns and the social contexts we confront - generating different forms which shape people's lives. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret S Archer, Margaret S. Archer, Margaret S. (University of Warwick) Archer, Margaret Scotford Archer, Archer Margaret S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.07.2007
• EAN: 9780521696937
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69693-7
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social Mobility, Social, group or collective psychology