Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage:

摘要: Individualisation theory misrepresents and romanticises the nature of agency as a primarily discursive reflexive process where people freely create their personal lives in an open social world divorced from tradition. But empirically we find that usually make decisions about pragmatically, bounded by circumstances connection with other people, not only relationally but also institutionally. This pragmatism is often non-reflexive, habitual routinised, even unconscious. Agents draw on existing traditions - styles thinking, sanctioned relationships, institutions, presumptions particular groups places, lived law norms to 'patch' or 'piece together' responses changing situations. Often it institutions 'do thinking'. People try both conserve energy seek legitimation this adaption process, which can lead 're-serving' tradition institutional leakage transfers meanings past present, vice versa. bricolage will always be socially contested uneven. In way describes how actually link structure through actions, provide framework for empirical research doing family.