reflexive modernization

the conception (Beck et al., 1994) that: ‘the more societies are modernized, the more agents (subjects) acquire the ability to reflect on the social conditions of their existence and to change them in that way’. Thus one medium of reflexive modernization is ‘knowledge in its various forms – scientific knowledge, expert knowledge, everyday knowledge’. A further implication of reflexive modernization, however, is ‘non-knowledge, inherent dynamism, the unseen and the unwilled’ related to a latent disembedding and re-embedding of industrial society in which ‘one type of scientization undermines the next’. ‘There is growth – of obligations to justify things and of uncertainty. The latter conditions the former. The immanent pluralization of risks also calls the rationality of risk calculations into question’. Thus for theorists like Beck ‘reflexive modernity’ is a mixed blessing. While in some circumstances, burgeoning reflexivity may be ‘emancipatory’ (compare HABERMAS, GIDDENS) in others, the loss of’certainty’ brings an intensifying sense of rootlessness and increased risk (see also RISK SOCIETY; compare POSTMODERNISM), and a possible negation of industrial society.

单词	reflexive modernization
释义	reflexive modernization reflexive modernization the conception (Beck et al., 1994) that: ‘the more societies are modernized, the more agents (subjects) acquire the ability to reflect on the social conditions of their existence and to change them in that way’. Thus one medium of reflexive modernization is ‘knowledge in its various forms – scientific knowledge, expert knowledge, everyday knowledge’. A further implication of reflexive modernization, however, is ‘non-knowledge, inherent dynamism, the unseen and the unwilled’ related to a latent disembedding and re-embedding of industrial society in which ‘one type of scientization undermines the next’. ‘There is growth – of obligations to justify things and of uncertainty. The latter conditions the former. The immanent pluralization of risks also calls the rationality of risk calculations into question’. Thus for theorists like Beck ‘reflexive modernity’ is a mixed blessing. While in some circumstances, burgeoning reflexivity may be ‘emancipatory’ (compare HABERMAS, GIDDENS) in others, the loss of’certainty’ brings an intensifying sense of rootlessness and increased risk (see also RISK SOCIETY; compare POSTMODERNISM), and a possible negation of industrial society.
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