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A Study on the Discourse of 'Reflexive Modernization'

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2006, 4(1), pp.177~205
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Jin Bog Lee 1

1동국대학교

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the discourse of reflexive modernization based on the exact interpretation of Enlightenment project and globalization. The perspective of this article is that the dispute between modernist and postmodernist is on semi-rationality, namely ‘the first phase modernization’. The discourse of reflexive modernization is the third way between modernization and postmodernization. The continuation/discontinuation of modernization on ‘globalization’ theme, the criticism/self-criticism of Enlightenment on ‘radicalization’ theme and the singularity/plurality of rationality on ‘inclusion’ theme are analyzed . To sum up, the motors of reflexive modernization are reflection(knowledges) and reflexivity(unintended consequences). Its background is globalization consisted of communicative revolution, knowledge-based economy, post-Cold War, individualization. Its contradiction is between inclusion and exclusion characterized as manufactured risk. Its response is radicalization as reconstructive self-criticism. Its political meaning is ‘The Third Way’ politics.

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