ABSTRACT
Reflexivity is not merely a need induced in individuals or groups by a risky environment. It is not only a reactive process, leading people from one condition of uncertainty to another. It can also be a capability for reorientation and redirection, helping to build up new social structures (or social formations) able to manage risks and uncertainties according to new modes of reasoning. The practical interest is to understand how reflexivity can be (or become) an operative capability creating new social forms with self-steering competences.
