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How does Giddens understand reflexivity and how useful is it in explaining social change?
This paper attempts to determine how useful Giddens understanding of reflexivity is in explaining social change in relation to content from week, nine of the course. The content from this week highlighted the concept of reflexivity and examined the way individuals are ‘forced’ to consciously monitor themselves because our society is pluralistic, ever changing and insecure. Amongst this content, we examined a wide range of theories; some begin with the individual and others began with society. In the midst, we synthesised Giddens post traditional story of change that explains the narrative of self by ‘lifestyle’ choices, ‘pure relationships’ …show more content…
Influential effects of social awareness from industrialisation on European societies greatly influenced social change, indirectly centring on industrial development and the apparent absence of social development. Later, this evolved to classify theories of social change in micro and macro, internal and external influences and detraditionalisation. Giddens understanding of reflexivity of the self is analytical, the descriptive analysis is an ‘integral connection between bodily development and lifestyle’ (Giddens, 1991, p. 7). The perception of ‘reflexology’ in Giddens explanation of social change is often unvalued. Giddens structures the notion of reflexivity as susceptible to ‘most aspects of social activity’ (Giddens, 1991, p. 20) even, as a major influence, with meaning that is not simply a way of emphasizing the self; rather, it is a constitutive part of modernity. In addition to the modernization of modern society, the idea of reflexivity is an aspect of late modernity, and a definite stage in the development of society. General considerations of late modernity or the ‘industrialised world’ refers to modes of behaviour and modern social conditions. Industrialism as referred to by Giddens implies to the institutional axes of capitalism and the commodification of labour power and surveillance over social relations (Giddens, 1991, p. 15). …show more content…
The context of ‘emotional labour’ was examined historically, socially and economically as part of the neoliberal capitalist system of exchange. In understand inequalities under neoliberal capitalism, feeling rules were applied in the interests of capital globally with the’ responsibility for unpaid care work…(that) tends to put them at a disadvantage in capitalist labour markets’ (Elson, 2009, p. 39) as shown in the YouTube clip ‘When mother comes home for Christmas’ . The content in this week discussed the movement of women transversely from wealthy western countries to poorer ones in order to take up the deficit in labour that is nurturing and caring in its
How does Giddens understand reflexivity and how useful is it in explaining social change?
This paper attempts to determine how useful Giddens understanding of reflexivity is in explaining social change in relation to content from week, nine of the course. The content from this week highlighted the concept of reflexivity and examined the way individuals are ‘forced’ to consciously monitor themselves because our society is pluralistic, ever changing and insecure. Amongst this content, we examined a wide range of theories; some begin with the individual and others began with society. In the midst, we synthesised Giddens post traditional story of change that explains the narrative of self by ‘lifestyle’ choices, ‘pure relationships’ …show more content…
Influential effects of social awareness from industrialisation on European societies greatly influenced social change, indirectly centring on industrial development and the apparent absence of social development. Later, this evolved to classify theories of social change in micro and macro, internal and external influences and detraditionalisation. Giddens understanding of reflexivity of the self is analytical, the descriptive analysis is an ‘integral connection between bodily development and lifestyle’ (Giddens, 1991, p. 7). The perception of ‘reflexology’ in Giddens explanation of social change is often unvalued. Giddens structures the notion of reflexivity as susceptible to ‘most aspects of social activity’ (Giddens, 1991, p. 20) even, as a major influence, with meaning that is not simply a way of emphasizing the self; rather, it is a constitutive part of modernity. In addition to the modernization of modern society, the idea of reflexivity is an aspect of late modernity, and a definite stage in the development of society. General considerations of late modernity or the ‘industrialised world’ refers to modes of behaviour and modern social conditions. Industrialism as referred to by Giddens implies to the institutional axes of capitalism and the commodification of labour power and surveillance over social relations (Giddens, 1991, p. 15). …show more content…
The context of ‘emotional labour’ was examined historically, socially and economically as part of the neoliberal capitalist system of exchange. In understand inequalities under neoliberal capitalism, feeling rules were applied in the interests of capital globally with the’ responsibility for unpaid care work…(that) tends to put them at a disadvantage in capitalist labour markets’ (Elson, 2009, p. 39) as shown in the YouTube clip ‘When mother comes home for Christmas’ . The content in this week discussed the movement of women transversely from wealthy western countries to poorer ones in order to take up the deficit in labour that is nurturing and caring in its