Modernity
and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
Anthony Giddens, Stanford University
Press, 1991
Disembedding: the lifting out of social relationships from
local contexts and their recombination across indefinite time/space distances.
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.
Institutional reflexivity: the reflexivity of modernity,
involving the routine incorporation of new knowledge or information into environments
of action that are thereby reconstituted or reorganized.
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
Ontological security: a sense of continuity and order in
events, including those not directly within the perceptual environment of the
individual
Reflexive project of the self: the process whereby
self-identity is constituted by the reflexive ordering of self-narratives
Risk culture: a fundamental cultural aspect of modernity, in
which awareness of risk forms a medium of colonizing the future
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.
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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