reflexivity

is the modern capability to be able to describe and formalize certain goals that you have put up for your self, which you relate to in a strategic way and use in your self reflection.

the opportunity to relate to one self' . . . as if 'we all the time captured our selves with a video camera, watched our selves and commented on what we saw. All the members of the modern society is fundamentally a part of this structure, but the relationship appears most clear with the young generation . . . To be 'modern' means today to be able to describe and formalize certain goals that you have put up for your self, which you relate to in a strategic way and use in your self reflection. (Ziehe, 1997: 29)

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