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Biographical Certainty in Reflexive Modernity [PDF]
, 2005 As a result of continuous social change it seems more and more difficult today\ud to produce biographical certainty in the sense of clear expectations and the\ud shaping of one’s own life-course. What was previously taken for granted is\ud being transformed into (real or apparent) decisions by means of social\ud individualization processes and ...
Zinn, Jens O.
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Global Hazards of Reflexive Modernity. An Ethological Perspective
Sfera Politicii, 2018 Exploding development of knowledge and the more and more extended market have required and accompanied the transition from industrial society, of simple modernity, characterized by redistribution of wealth, to postmodern society, of reflexive modernity ...
Bogdan Ficeac
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Ulrich Beck’s Thoughts and Ideas (The Theorist of Risk Society) [PDF]
توسعه اجتماعی, 2016 Ulrich Beck is one of the theorists who theorized about modernity. One of the concepts he developed, is idea of “risk and society”, which he first developed in his book “Risk Society”.
habib ahmadi, roudabeh dehghani
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Reflexive Identity Construction in South Asian American Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
ES Review, 2021 Cultural identity in contemporary diasporic communities is dynamic, multifaceted, and cyclical. In the age of reflexive modernity, it is imperative to think about new ways of conceptualizing the experience of individuals straddling multiple geographies ...
Muqarram Khorakiwala
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Zhang Junmai’s Early Political Philosophy and the Paradoxes of Chinese Modernity
Asian Studies, 2020 This article examines the significance of reflexive self-critical modernity in the development of early “New Confucianism” by reconsidering the example of Zhang Junmai in the context of the May Fourth and New Culture Movements.
Eric S. Nelson
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Variants of Interplay as Drivers of Media Change
Media and Communication, 2017 This article conceptualizes acting on media in terms of different interplays between focal actors, users, and user communities. It is argued that—in times of mediated visibility, the increasing entanglement of social and technological change, and ...
Tilo Grenz, Paul Eisewicht
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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Sustainable Development: Representing a reflexive modernity inside the United Nations [PDF]
, 2010 This paper suggests that the discourse of sustainable development (SD) within the United Nations (UN) represents a paradigm shift from first/industrial modernity to a reflexive modernity.
Borne, Gregory
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Introduction to a critique of modernity as a sociological concept
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2010 This article borrows the methodological framework from the conceptual history, as well as some of the substantive findings from the principal essay of conceptual history on the concept of modernity by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, to criticize the present-day ...
João Feres Junior
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Individualization and the Ideal of Self-Realization in Conditions of Reflexive Modernity
Communications, 2018 Individualization as a modernization social phenomenon is of a highly ambivalent character. On the one hand, it represents the emancipation of individuals from general pressures of the society, from the traditional relations of domination and material ...
Ciprian Turcan
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