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On reflexivity and the conduct of the self in everyday life: reflections on Bourdieu and Archer
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This article provides a critique of the concept of reflexivity in social theory today and argues against the tendency to define agency exclusively in terms of reflexivity. Margaret Archer, in particular, is highlighted as a key proponent of this thesis. Archer argues that late modernity is characterized by reflexivity but, in our view, this position neglects the impact of more enduring aspects of agency, such as the routinization of social life and the role of the taken‐for‐granted. These concepts were pivotal to Bourdieu and Giddens' theorization of everyday life and action and to Foucault's understanding of technologies of the self. We offer Bourdieu's habitus as a more nuanced approach to theorizing agency, and provide an alternative account of reflexivity. Whilst accepting that reflexivity is a core aspect of agency, we argue that it operates to a backdrop of the routinization of social life and operates from within and not outside of habitus. We highlight the role of the breach in reflexivity, suggesting that it opens up a critical window for agents to initiate change. The article suggests caution in over‐ascribing reflexivity to agency, instead arguing that achieving reflexivity and change is a difficult and fraught process, which has emotional and moral consequences. The effect of this is that people often prefer the status quo, rather than to risk change and uncertainty. 相似文献
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Akram Kohansal 《统计学通讯:理论与方法》2013,42(18):5392-5411
ABSTRACTWe present two new estimators for estimating the entropy of absolutely continuous random variables. Some properties of them are considered, specifically consistency of the first is proved. The introduced estimators are compared with the existing entropy estimators. Also, we propose two new tests for normality based on the introduced entropy estimators and compare their powers with the powers of other tests for normality. The results show that the proposed estimators and test statistics perform very well in estimating entropy and testing normality. A real example is presented and analyzed. 相似文献
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Sadiya Akram 《Journal for the theory of social behaviour》2013,43(1):45-65
While the human agent must have the capacity for reflexivity, intentionality and consciousness, the same agent must also be affected by the social world in which she lives: herein lies the essence of the structure and agency dialectic. This paper argues that while some realists are in principle committed to a dialectical relationship between structure and agency, there is some dissonance between this commitment and the concepts of agency that they develop. I highlight the exclusion of the unconscious and habit from realist notions of agency and argue that this oversight serves to unbalance the dialectic between structure and agency thereby leading to the over‐empowerment of agency. The concepts of agency developed by Margaret Archer, Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu are discussed in this paper. Archer's concept of agency is argued to focus exclusively on reflexivity whilst neglecting to include the unconscious and habit. Giddens is shown to develop a much improved concept of agency, which includes the unconscious, however, his rejection of the independent causal powers of structure and agency problematises his commitment to the dialectic. A much improved approach to theorising agency, developed within a critical realist framework, is offered drawing on Bourdieu's concept of habitus. The paper concludes with a discussion of gender, and considers how the unconscious and habit can help to better understand the myriad ways in which gender functions in society. 相似文献
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A hybrid censoring scheme is a mixture of Type-I and Type-II censoring schemes. We study the estimation of parameters of weighted exponential distribution based on Type-II hybrid censored data. By applying the EM algorithm, maximum likelihood estimators are evaluated. Using Fisher information matrix, asymptotic confidence intervals are provided. By applying Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques, Bayes estimators, and corresponding highest posterior density confidence intervals of parameters are obtained. Monte Carlo simulations are performed to compare the performances of the different methods, and one dataset is analyzed for illustrative purposes. 相似文献
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Boutros A 《Physician executive》2007,33(4):56-9, 61
In the last installment of this 3-part series, learn the framework needed to support an innovation team that can make change happen. 相似文献
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Watkins Deborah J. Torres Zayas Héctor Ramón Vélez Vega Carmen M. Rosario Zaira Welton Michael Agosto Arroyo Luis D. Cardona Nancy Díaz Reguero Zulmarie J. Santos Rivera Amailie Huerta-Montañez Gredia Brown Phil Alshawabkeh Akram Cordero José F. Meeker John D. 《Population and environment》2020,42(1):95-111
Population and Environment - Prior to Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico already had 200+ hazardous waste sites, significant contamination of water resources, and among the highest rates of preterm birth... 相似文献
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Muhammad Akram Rob J. Hyndman J. Keith Ord 《Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics》2009,51(4):415-432
The most common forecasting methods in business are based on exponential smoothing, and the most common time series in business are inherently non‐negative. Therefore it is of interest to consider the properties of the potential stochastic models underlying exponential smoothing when applied to non‐negative data. We explore exponential smoothing state space models for non‐negative data under various assumptions about the innovations, or error, process. We first demonstrate that prediction distributions from some commonly used state space models may have an infinite variance beyond a certain forecasting horizon. For multiplicative error models that do not have this flaw, we show that sample paths will converge almost surely to zero even when the error distribution is non‐Gaussian. We propose a new model with similar properties to exponential smoothing, but which does not have these problems, and we develop some distributional properties for our new model. We then explore the implications of our results for inference, and compare the short‐term forecasting performance of the various models using data on the weekly sales of over 300 items of costume jewelry. The main findings of the research are that the Gaussian approximation is adequate for estimation and one‐step‐ahead forecasting. However, as the forecasting horizon increases, the approximate prediction intervals become increasingly problematic. When the model is to be used for simulation purposes, a suitably specified scheme must be employed. 相似文献