The Theory of Reflexive Modernization
The Theory of Reflexive Modernization
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反思性现代化理论
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2003
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C. Lau
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U. Beck;W. Bonss;C. Lau
如何区分第二现代性与后现代性？后现代主义者关注的是没有重建的解构，第二现代性关注的是解构和重建。社会科学需要构建新的概念来理解世纪初的世界动态。现代性并没有消失，我们也不是在追寻它，激进的社会变革一直是现代性的一部分。新的是，现代性已经开始使其自身的基础现代化。这就是说现代性已经成为反射性的。它已经成为针对自己。这在现实和理论上都带来了巨大的新问题。社会内部和社会之间、社会与自然之间、我们与他人之间、生与死之间的界限已经多元化。这种多元化也改变了边界的固有性质。他们成为与其说是边界，不如说是各种各样的尝试画的边界。边界冲突转化为划定边界的冲突。后现代主义只是简单地赞美这种边界的倍增，而第二现代性理论则从这种新现实给个人和集体决策带来的问题，以及这种决策的持续存在给理论带来的问题开始。能够有意识地划定边界的制度，是以第一次现代性所没有的方式实现的。但这一过程也产生了新的麻烦和危机。对这些问题的考察，就是要揭示第二现代性的产生。
How can one distinguish the concept of second modernity from the concept of postmodernity? Postmodernists are interested in deconstruction without reconstruction, second modernity is about deconstruction and reconstruction. Social sciences need to construct new concepts to understand the world dynamics at the beginning of the 21st century. Modernity has not vanished, we are not post it. Radical social change has always been part of modernity. What is new is that modernity has begun to modernize its own foundations. This is what it means to say modernity has become reflexive. It has become directed at itself. This causes huge new problems both in reality and in theory. There has been a pluralization of the boundaries within and between societies, between society and nature, between Us and Other, between life and death. This pluralization also changes the inherent nature of boundaries. They become not so much boundaries as a variety of attempts to draw of boundaries. Border conflicts become transformed into conflicts over the drawing of boundaries. Where postmodernism simply celebrates this multiplication of boundaries, the theory of second modernity starts with the problem this new reality poses for individual and collective decisions, and with the problem that the continued existence of such decisions poses for theory. Institutions that are capable of such conscious boundary drawing are enabled in a way that those of the first modernity were not. But this process also generates qualitatively new kinds of trouble and crises. To investigate those troubles is to unveil the emergence of the second modernity.