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Lecture 8
Giddens reflexive society
Studies
Introductions to the theory:
Beck, Ulrich, Giddens, Anthony and Lash Scott (1994) Reflexive
Modernisation: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern
Social Order. Cambridge: Polity Press. (in particular pp. 184-197.)
301.01 BEC
Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and self-identity : self and
society in the Late Modern Age Cambridge : Polity, 301.157 GID
Pip Jones 2003 Introducing Social Theory. Polity Press, Chap. 10.
Critical Responses to Post-modernity and Postmodernism.
Empirical studies:
Burrows, Roger and Nicholas Gane (2006) Geodemographics,
Software and Class Sociology 40(5):793-812.
Green, Eileen and Carrie Singleton (2006) Young Women
Negotiating Space and Place Sociology 40(5):853-872.
Breathaliser
Fertility monitor
Technologies of surveilance
www.ctcdevon.co.uk/exeter.htm
http://www.letopweb.net/webcam-du-mond
e.html
Baby alarms
Whose watching?
Who is watched?
The success of such classification systems lies in their ability to map out
and structure patterns of consumption that in turn aid both the enhancement
and regulation of the capitalist market. businesses and policy makers
alike use geodemographic classifications extensively to inform the targeting
of goods, services and policy interventions.
But at the same time, systems such as ACORN and MOSAIC are
successful with the consuming public because they are designed to make
individuals feel at home somewhere, both socially and physically: You are
where you live. The classifications these systems produce, like the endless
TV programmes dealing with house moves and makeovers, essentially
promote a feeling of belonging, What this really means is belonging to
place: to places through which we can identify ourselves and be identified
and placed (in a social landscape) by others. Ones residence is a crucial,
possibly the crucial, identifier of who you are.
social ascriptions of identities are becoming increasingly complex,
particularly as identities are created increasingly through acts of
consumption, define new forms of class and class relations. Now more
than ever before, for example, the places in which we choose to live, eat,
holiday, and more generally consume are key factors in defining who we, as
individuals, are, and the social groupings to which we aspire to belong.
Burrows, Roger and Nicholas Gane (2006) Geodemographics, Software
and Class Sociology 40(5):793-812. pp807/8
Post-Modernity
Radicalised Modernity
Radicalised Modernity
5. Analyses a dialectic of
powerlessness and empowerment,
in terms of both experience and
action.
Radicalised Modernity
7. Regards coordinated
political engagement as
precluded by the primacy
of contextuality and
dispersal.
7. Regards coordinated
political engagement as
both possible and
necessary, on a global
level as well as locally.
8. Defines post-modernity
as the end of
epistemology/the
individual/ethics.
8. Defines post-modernity
as possible
transformations moving
"beyond" the institutions
of modernity.