Coping With Life: A Typology of Personal Reflexivity

Caetano, Ana

doi:10.1080/00380253.2016.1246904

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“…The notion of personal reflexivity is understood as the way in which individuals think about themselves with reference to their social circumstances. The concept was operationalised through an analytical model of reflexive processes at the individual level that combines elements from critical realism with proposals from dispositionalist and structuration theories, distinguishing between an internal and an external dimension of action (Caetano, ). It is structured around three different levels of analysis corresponding to distinct processes of mediation between structure and agency.…”

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Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice

Caetano

2018

J Theory Soc Behav

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The main goal of this article is to analyse the relationship between reflexivity and action along three axes.The first entails the discussion of a reflexive action model that explores the combination of factors, processes and mechanisms which explain the guiding role reflexivity can play with regard to practices, in specific circumstances. The second axis concerns situations in which reflexivity does not act as an orientation mechanism and may even have the opposite effect, as a source of disorientation and paralysis of practices. The third relates to the production of social change and reproduction that may arise from the exercise of reflexivity. The whole discussion points to the mediation role that reflexivity assumes in the relationship between structure and agency, i.e. in the way structural enablements and constraints are received, filtered and mobilised by subjects in the subjective definition and reflexive implementation of their personal projects.

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Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice

Caetano

2018

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…However, the exercise of reflexivity through external conversations does not occur homogeneously for all respondents and is crossed by axes of social differentiation (Caetano, 2017; Nico and Caetano, 2017). Among those who are more educated (generally those who completed higher education) and with the most qualified and well-paid occupations, there is a centrality of internal dialogues with regard to the way in which they think about themselves in the world.…”

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Reflexive Dialogues: Interaction and Writing as External Components of Personal Reflexivity

Caetano

2017

Sociological Research Online

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Margaret Archer’s work suggests that reflexivity is exercised through internal dialogues, in which subjects talk to themselves in order to clarify ideas, mull over problems, make plans, and take decisions. The present article argues that the exercise of reflexive competences is not limited to the privacy of individual minds, but that there is also an external component, which can lend the concept a broader analytical scope. Using the results of qualitative research focused on the social mechanisms of personal reflexivity, including biographical interviews, the article examines two other modalities of exercising reflexivity: external conversations in interaction contexts and writing practices (autobiographical, creative, communicational, and organisational). It also looks at the differential activation of reflexivity according to both the subjects’ different positions in social space and inter- and intra-contextual variations.

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“…Choi and Luo, 2016; Gaetano, 2014), and ageing (e.g. Caetano, 2017; Pickard, 2016), the restructuring of newly gentrified communities (e.g. Patton, 2014), radicalised religion (e.g.…”

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The Fate of Social Character in an Age of Uncertainty

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Mellor

2020

Sociology

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This article develops the long-standing sociological tradition of ‘character studies’, arguing that the accelerated change and associated uncertainties central to late modern life have been accompanied by what we refer to as a new opportunity-directed form of individuality. Engaging with Sayer’s agenda-setting return to the subject, we acknowledge the ideological uses to which the promotion of this characterological form may be put, but argue that its core qualities can help suitably situated persons negotiate radical uncertainty via a reflexive, future-oriented commitment to agency. Despite the advantages of this orientation in the contemporary era, however, we conclude by suggesting that opportunity-directedness is associated with certain ‘pathologies’, involving psychological costs and social inequalities, that raise questions about its desirability and sustainability.

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Coping With Life: A Typology of Personal Reflexivity

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice

Designing social action: The impact of reflexivity on practice

Reflexive Dialogues: Interaction and Writing as External Components of Personal Reflexivity

The Fate of Social Character in an Age of Uncertainty

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