What is meant by eflexivity and eflexive modernisation and how do they operate?
Reflexive modernisation implies coming to terms with the limits and contradictions of the modern order. The existing social order or structure becomes the object of its own forces. The concept of reflexive modernisation does not simply imply reflection, but a self-confrontation created by the dynamics of modernisation. This reflexivity is created by the circumstances of modern society in which the constantly renewing flow of information constituting society simultaneously revises that society’s modernity. This transition is the process of reflexive modernisation. Reflexive monitoring of action, the process by which humanity keeps in touch with the grounds and reasons for its actions, as an integral element of doing it, is characteristic of human action. Tradition is a mode of integrating this reflexive monitoring of action and handling of time and space within the continuity of the past, present, and future of the community. In pre-modern societies reflexivity is largely limited to the
