Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse.
In this paper, I seek to show that Giddens’s notion of self-reflexivity pervades throughout the micro-institutional and ground levels of Poh Ming Tse’s (PMT) beginner meditation class - a reflection of the larger phenomenon of societal reflexivity which stems from the overall framework of risk negot...
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| author | Tan, Amanda Swee Ching. |
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| description | In this paper, I seek to show that Giddens’s notion of self-reflexivity pervades throughout the micro-institutional and ground levels of Poh Ming Tse’s (PMT) beginner meditation class - a reflection of the larger phenomenon of societal reflexivity which stems from the overall framework of risk negotiation and prevention. Through ethnography and interviews, I have structured my analysis according to “Micro-institution” and “Self”, of which the former explores PMT’s self-reflexive brand of meditation through course teachings while the latter portrays the heterogeneity of self-reflexivity through the analysis of participant decision making processes by determining that (1) primary participation motivations for PMT’s meditation class are secular- risk negotiation – not religious in nature (2) the nature of motivations affects participants’ preference towards aspects of the course (3) different notions of self-reflexivity between micro-institution and participants lead to conflict. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/438212019-12-10T14:33:11Z Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. Tan, Amanda Swee Ching. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Poh Ming Tse Temple Xiao Hong DRNTU::Social sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy In this paper, I seek to show that Giddens’s notion of self-reflexivity pervades throughout the micro-institutional and ground levels of Poh Ming Tse’s (PMT) beginner meditation class - a reflection of the larger phenomenon of societal reflexivity which stems from the overall framework of risk negotiation and prevention. Through ethnography and interviews, I have structured my analysis according to “Micro-institution” and “Self”, of which the former explores PMT’s self-reflexive brand of meditation through course teachings while the latter portrays the heterogeneity of self-reflexivity through the analysis of participant decision making processes by determining that (1) primary participation motivations for PMT’s meditation class are secular- risk negotiation – not religious in nature (2) the nature of motivations affects participants’ preference towards aspects of the course (3) different notions of self-reflexivity between micro-institution and participants lead to conflict. Bachelor of Arts 2011-04-28T08:17:08Z 2011-04-28T08:17:08Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43821 en Nanyang Technological University 29 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy Tan, Amanda Swee Ching. Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. |
| title | Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. |
| title_full | Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. |
| title_short | Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse. |
| title_sort | risk and the regulated self self reflexivity through meditation in poh ming tse |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy |
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