ABSTRACT
Such thinking is also highly prominent in the work of Anthony Giddens (1991), who suggests that late modernity has brought about new forms of self ‘reflection’ and changes in the way people relate to themselves in everyday life (to be more precise, reflection/reflexivity refers to self-observation and the application to the self of the same criteria one applies to others, or, more loosely, awareness of the effects of one’s actions on the world). He claims that within the open social terrain of late modernity, new modes of subjectivity are created in which the ‘self’ is thus seen as a ‘reflexive project’, for which the individual is now solely responsible.
