Towards an Understanding of the Internal Conversation and Metareflexivity of Slovenian Youth Cover Image

K RAZUMEVANJU NOTRANJEGA DIALOGA IN METAREFLEKSIVNOSTI PRI MLADIH V SLOVENIJI
Towards an Understanding of the Internal Conversation and Metareflexivity of Slovenian Youth

Author(s): Tea Golob, Matej Makarovič
Subject(s): Communication studies, Sociology, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: reflexivity; meta-reflexivity; youth; morphogenesis; Margaret Archer;

Summary/Abstract: The article contributes to the understanding of the reflexivity of Slovenian youth.It focuses on meta-reflexivity as an active critical evaluation of both one’s internal conversations and the social environment. The text draws upon the theoretical framework of critical realism, as represented by Margaret Archer. The research involves a combination of a web-based survey and in-depth interviews with young people recognised as meta-reflexive. High meta-reflexivity is typically combinedwith either autonomous reflexivity, enabling the individual’s adaptation to the demands of individualistic competitiveness, or fractured reflexivity, demonstrating problems in these adaptations, with young women being more frequently found in the latter group. The semantic analysis of the biographical interviews show young people face structural challenges and establish their life paths and identities.

  • Issue Year: 37/2021
  • Issue No: 96-97
  • Page Range: 165-188
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Slovenian