{"product_id":"conversations-about-reflexivity-9780415733076","title":"Conversations About Reflexivity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reflexivity is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully on this phenomenon, this book discusses the three main questions associated with this subject in detail. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere does the ability to be reflexive comes from?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat part do our internal reflexive deliberations play in designing the courses of action we take: subordinate to habitual action or not? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs reflexivity a homogeneous practice for all people and invariant over history? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addressing these questions, contributors engage critically with the most relevant studies by luminaries such as G.H Mead, C.S. Pierce, Habermas, Luhmann, Beck, Giddens and Bourdieu. Most contributors are leading Pragmatists or Critical Realists, ass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations, List of contributors, 1. Introduction: The reflexive re-turn, PART I. Reflexivity and pragmatism, 2. Inner speech and agency, 3. Cartesian privacy and Peircean interiority, 4. Pragmatist and hermeneutic reflections on the internal conversations that we are, PART II. Reflexivity and realism, 5. Human reflexivity in social realism: beyond the modern debate, 6. Reflexivity and the habitus, 7. Can reflexivity and habitus work in tandem?, 8. Reflexivity after modernity: from the viewpoint of relational sociology, PART III. Modes of reflexivity, 9. The agency of the weak: ethos, reflexivity and life strategies of Polish workers after the end of state socialism, 10. Emotion, and the silenced and short- circuited self, 11. Self talk and self reflection: a view from the US, PART IV. Reflexivity in production and consumption, 12. ‘Reflexive consumers’: a relational approach to consumption as a social practice, 13. Organizational use of information and communication technology and its impact on reflexivity, Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767525802327,"sku":"9780415733076","price":51.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415733076.jpg?v=1758713627","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conversations-about-reflexivity-9780415733076","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}