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Abstract
systems: symbolic tokens and expert systems taken generically.
Archeology:
objective measure for revealing a deeper structure that has not
been examined; the underlying grid of a construct.
Basic
trust: trust in the continuity of others and in the object-world,
derived from early infantile experience.
Bodily
demeanor: the stylized conduct of the individual within
the contexts of day-to-day life, involving the use of appearance
to create specific impressions of self.
Collage
effect: the juxtaposition of heterogeneous items of knowledge
or information in a text or format of electronic communication.
Colonization
of the future: the creation of territories of future
possibilities, reclaimed by counterfactual inference.
Contested
space:
a space becomes contested when for some period of time a discourse
or part of a discourse looses its taken-for-grantedness, and other
discourses are vying to be "the discourse," (e.g. whole language
took the space left by older discourses on how to teach reading,
but it never became "the discourse" because it is not universally
accepted).
Deployment:
the emergence of a new discourse, which has its own momentum, is
based on an ensemble of events, no one person or group is in charge.
Deskilling
of day-to-day life:
the process whereby local skills are expropriated into abstract
systems and reorganized in light of technical knowledge. Deskilling
normally goes along with complementary processes of reappropriation.
Dialectic
of the local and global:
the oppositional interplay between local involvements and globalizing
tendencies.
Discourses
and practices:
make visible and invisible, include and exclude, assign roles to
the players, legitimize or delegitimize. Discourse is power.
Disembedding:
the lifting out of social relationships from local contexts and
their recombination across indefinite time/space distances.
Emathencipatory
politics: politics
of freedom from exploitation, inequality or oppression.
Existential
contradiction:
the contradictory relation of human beings to nature, as finite
creatures who are part of the organic world, yet set off against
it.
Existential
questions:
queries about basic dimensions of existence, in respect of human
life as well as the material world, which all human beings ÔanswerĠ
in the contexts of their day-to-day conduct.
Expert
systems: systems
of expert knowledge, of any type, depending on rules of procedure
transferable from individual to individual.
Extrinsic
criteria: influences
on social relations or social life not governed by the institutional
reflexivity of modernity.
Fateful
moments: moments at which consequential decisions have
to be taken or courses of action initiated.
Genealogy:
focus on discourses, practices and parts of discourses.
Governmentality:
principles that lead to population management; control; way of accounting
for people and data.
High-consequence
risks:
risks, which are pervasively consequential in terms of their implications
for very large numbers of people
High
(or late) modernity:
the current phase of development of modern institutions, marked
by the radicalizing and globalizing of basic traits of modernity.
History
of the present:
how constructs emerge, how they relate, what their function is.
Institutional
reflexivity:
the reflexivity of modernity, involving the routine incorporation
of new knowledge of information into environments of action that
are thereby reconstituted or reorganized.
Intelligibility:
discourses make certain things intelligible within a particular
topic; they belong in that particular context.
Internal
referentiality:
the circumstance whereby social relations, or aspects of the natural
world, become organized reflexively in terms of internal criteria.
Life-planning:
the strategic adoption of lifestyle options, organized in terms
of the individual´s projected lifespan, and normally focused through
the notion of risk.
Life
politics: the
politics of self -actualization, in the context of the dialectic
of the local and global and the emergence of the internally referential
systems of modernity.
Lifestyle
sector: a time/space
"slice" of an individual´s overall activities, within
which a fairly consistent set of social practices is followed.
Mediated
experience:
the involvement of temporally/spatially distant influences with
human sensory experience.
Narrative:
a representation and explanation of social reality that is communicated
through various story structures.
Narrative
of the self:
the story or stories by means of which self-identity is reflexively
understood, both by the individual concerned and by others.
Normalization:
social constructions that are accepted, taken for granted; dominant
or standing construction.
Ontological
security: a
sense of continuity and order in events, including those not directly
within the perceptual environment of the individual.
Open
human control:
future-oriented human intervention in the social and natural worlds,
in which colonizing processes are regulated by risk assessment
Pastoral:
caring, romanticizing the control of others by casting it in terms
of caring for.
Phenomenologic
subject: the
subjectivity everyone has.
Place
as phantasmagoric:
the process whereby local characteristics of place are thoroughly
invaded by, and reorganized in terms of, distanciated social relations.
Positivism:
the epistemological doctrine that physical and social reality is
independent of those who observe it, and that observations of this
reality, if unbiased, constitute scientific knowledge.
Postmodernism:
a broad social and philosophical movement that questions the rationality
of human action, the use of positivist epistemology, and any human
endeavor (e.g., science) that claims a privileged position with
respect to the search for truth or that claims progress in its search
for truth.
Postpositivism:
the epistemological doctrine that social reality is a construction,
and that it is constructed differently by different individuals.
Poststructuralism:
the study of phenomena as systems, with the assumption that these
systems have no inherent meaning.
Privatizing
of passion:
the contracting of passion to the sexual sphere and the separation
of that sphere from the public gaze.
.Problematizing:
calling into question the taken for granted constructs; naming things
that are taken for granted and making them unfamiliar by drawing
them out and looking at them from different perceptions.
Protective
cocoon: the
defensive protection which filters out potential dangers impinging
from the external world and which is founded psychologically upon
basic trust.
Pure
relationship:
a social relation which is internally referential, that is, depends
fundamentally on satisfaction or rewards generic to that relation
itself.
Reality:
the symbolic order of everything that has meaning.
Reflexive
project of the self:
the process whereby self-identity is constituted by the reflexive
ordering of self-narratives.
Regimes:
regularized modes of behavior relevant to the continuance or cultivation
of bodily traits.
Risk
culture: a
fundamental cultural aspect of modernity, in which awareness of
risk forms a medium of colonizing the future.
Risk
profiling:
the portrayal of clusters of risks, in given environments of action,
in the light of current circumstances of technical knowledge.
Self-identity:
the self as reflexively understood by the individual in terms of
his or her biography.
Separation
of time and space:
the disentangling of separated dimensions of "empty" time and "empty"
space, making possible the articulation of disembedded social relations
across indefinite spans of time/space.
Sequestration
of experience:
the separation of day-to-day life from contact with experiences
which raise potentially disturbing existential questions´ particularly
experiences to do with sickness, madness, criminality, sexuality
and death.
Sign:
in semiotics, a signifier and what it signifies (i.e. what it means).
Signified:
in semiotics, the meaning conveyed by an object (called the signifier).
Signifier:
in semiotics, an object (e.g., the expression H2O) that is intended
to convey meaning (called the signified).
Symbolic
tokens: media
of exchange that have standard value and are thus interchangeable
across an indefinite variety of contexts.
Technologies
of the self: learning to be reflective; to self-regulate
or mold self for a specific context.
Trajectory
of the self:
the formation of a specific lifespan in conditions of modernity,
by means of which self-development, as reflexively organized, tends
to become internally referential.
Trust:
the vesting of confidence in persons or in abstract systems, made
on the basis of a "leap into faith" which brackets ignorance or
lack of information.
Umwelt
(Goffman):
a phenomenal world with which the individual is routinely "in touch"
in respect of potential dangers and alarms.
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