The regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their social contexts and vice vera
Reflexivity
The act of silently talking to oneself within our own heads
Internal conversation
Internal Conversation is also known as…?
Self-talk
Intra-communication
Inner dialogue
Rumination
The absence of the quality of ‘speaking out loud’ due to internalizing it with age, is said to be a sign of…?
Mental maturity
This is seen as interfering with routinised schemes that are regarded as providing quicker and more reliable guides to action
Rumination
The means by which we make our way through the world
Reflexivity
The generic process assumed by those who hold that no recourse need be made to any aspect of human subjectivity in order to explain social action.
Social Hydraulics
The manner in which we reflexively make our way through the world.
Internal conversation
These are people who can exercise some governance in their own lives
Active agents
These are people who simply lets thing happen in their lives
Passive agents
Any course of actions intentionally engaged upon by a human being; formed to advance/protect what we care about most
Projects
Depends upon establishing successful practices in the natural world
Physical well-being
Relies upon acquiring skillful practices in relation to material artefacts
Performative competence
This hinges upon developing rewarding practices in society
Self-worth
Involves the interplay between two kinds of causal powers: those pertaining to structures and those belonging to subjects.
Social conditioning
Must deal explicitly with the interplay between two powers
Conditioning
The power of reflexivity to think about themselves in relation to society and to come to different conclusions that lead to variable action outcomes
Personal power
This model transforms the first-person subjective ontology of the agent’s internal conversation into a third person objectivist account proffered by the investigator
Two-stage model
These are the subjective properties imputed to agents and assumed to govern their actions:
Promotion of vested interests (critical realism)
Instrumental rationality (rational choice theory)
Habitus/induced repertoires (Bordieu/discourse theory)
Imputes instrumental rationality alone to all subjects as they supposedly seek to maximise their preference schedules in order to become better off in terms of some indeterminates future utiles
Rational choice theory
it is the answer to how the causal power of social forms is mediated through human agency
Reflexivity
This is essential for giving an account of precisely what we do rather than a statement about probable courses of action
Reflexive mediation
Actively mediates between our structurally-shaped circumstances and what we deliberately make of them
Agential reflexivity
Model that gives objectivity and subjectivity their due and also explicitly incorporates their interplay through the process of reflexive mediation
Three-stage model