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RISK CULTURE in the lay actors and technical specialists organize the social
world
- lifestyle & the negotiation of lifestyle -> diversity = also DECISIONS &
COURSES OF ACTION
HIGH MODERNITY
Second chances: mourning – from the loss of shared pleasures and experiences
+ abandoning hope in the (marriage) relationships
Affects the “children of divorce” -> reconciliation fantasy (for the parents to get
back together again)
Danger and opportunity – much to be gained but new dangers to be faced (ex.
anxiety in stepfamilies – BUT which could also help adaptive responses and
novel initiations
General considerations
3 explaining elements:
DEF. = the condition for the articulation of social relations across wide spans of
time-space, up to and including global systems
no place reference BUT “when” connected “where” SYSTEM; standard past and
universal future
Expert systems: [technical] information only for the specially trained (e.g.
everyone uses the phone but only a few know how it works, how it’s built etc)
- These involve trust = generally an attitude (connected to psychological
SECURITY) but we CAN cognitively decide to trust as well, which presumes a
leap of commitment
3) Intrinsic REFLEXIVITY
- nobody can “opt out” -> e.g. global risks: nuclear war, ecological catastrophe
Taken for granted confidence (e.g. in suppliers of natural food – they would supply
what they said)
CHOICE is relatively set but little help to choose ; channel-ordering (tradition, habit)
Plurality of choice-factors
Mediated experience
Lifestyle choices from institutional settings which help shape their actions
- self-ID forms a trajectory across different institutional settings over “life cycle”
[‘HOW shall I live?’s DAY to day decisions
- Abstract systems -> early socialization advice and instruction of EXPERTS VS.
direct initiation
Being human = everyone knows WHAT one is doing and WHY = discursive
interpretation (ableness
- even the most simple query demands the BRACKETING of an infinite number of
possibilities open
- to live our lives we take FOR GRANTED many things including existential issues
(philosophers/individual CRISIS)
“FAITH” in the coherence of everyday life (e.g. with the baby hoping the
parent will return when gone for a while)
Basic trust = the core of “hope” and origin of “the courage to be”
A terrible accident however pulls apart the protective cocoon VS. feeling of relative
invulnerability
Civic indifference = everyone is worthy of respect – e.g. glance on the street ~ the
other is not a threat
Finitude and human life = existential contradiction; humans (are of) BUT set
apart from nature as sentient reflexive creatures
Experience of others = HOW we interpret the traits and actions of others -> trust
and faith in them equally implicated
- “conscious of” in the term self consciousness: NOT something given but HAS
TO BE CREATED REFLEXIVELY AND ROUTINELY
Body & self – ease in any given situation presumes long-term experience;
everything (even the most banal current routines) was an EFFORT
GENDER is “done”
THERE IS NO single body trait that separates ALL men from ALL women
Characteristics of guilt
• Derives from feelings of wrong-doing
• Exposure of transgressions
Characteristics of shame
“not done, happen” – experience: systematic reflection about the course of life’s
development
5) self reflexivity
(page 78) novel hazards as necessary breaking from patterns – recover or repeat
Pure = only for what it can bring; both sides wanting REAL love (intrinsic
travails of pure relation
Vs. inertial drag BUY TIME – provide emotional support guaranteed to persist
while perturbation
Shared histories
3.4. The body = object, source of feelings of well-being and pleasure / illness and
strains
not just “possess” – action system, mode of praxis – coherent sense of self ID
- “dress” vs. “uniform” ; demeanour -> multiple selves with no inner care of self id
3.5. Anorexia nervosa – association between dieting and changing bodily
appearance values