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    Personal life, pragmatism and bricolage.

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    Publication date
    2011
    Author
    Duncan, Simon
    Keyword
    Bricolage
    Personal life
    Agency
    Individualisation
    Family
    Decision making
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    © Sociological Research Online. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
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    Abstract
    Individualisation theory misrepresents and romanticises the nature of agency as a primarily discursive and reflexive process where people freely create their personal lives in an open social world divorced from tradition. But empirically we find that people usually make decisions about their personal lives pragmatically, bounded by circumstances and in connection with other people, not only relationally but also institutionally. This pragmatism is often non-reflexive, habitual and routinised, even unconscious. Agents draw on existing traditions - styles of thinking, sanctioned social relationships, institutions, the presumptions of particular social groups and places, lived law and social norms - to ¿patch¿ or ¿piece together' responses to changing situations. Often it is institutions that ¿do the thinking¿. People try to both conserve social energy and seek social legitimation in this adaption process, a process which can lead to a ¿re-serving¿ of tradition even as institutional leakage transfers meanings from past to present, and vice versa. But this process of bricolage will always be socially contested and socially uneven. In this way bricolage describes how people actually link structure and agency through their actions, and can provide a framework for empirical research on doing family.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5474
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    Duncan, S. (2011). Personal life, pragmatism and bricolage. Sociological Research Online. Vol. 4, No.16, pp.1-12.
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    http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/4/13.html
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