Od samoświadomości do tożsamości społecznej. Konwersacja wewnętrzna jako warunek refleksyjnej zmiany społecznej w teorii Margaret S. Archer
From Self-awareness to Social Identity. Internal Conversation as a Condition for Reflexive Social Change in Margaret S. Archer’s Theory

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of reflexive social change in Margaret Archer’s social theory, with the goal of presenting a method to describe social change in terms of the category of agency that she proposes. In this description, reflexivity plays a key role as the mediating process between a subject and social structures. Internal conversation, in which the individual’s fundamental concerns are elaborated and their life projects determined, constitutes the practical realisation of reflexivity. It is through internal conversation that a subject acquires a social identity, undertakes particular social roles, and becomes involved in activity leading to social change. Such conversation is the basic personal emergent property (PEP) of a subject, emerging from their relations to the three orders of reality: natural, practical and social. In this article the author underlines the importance of Margaret Archer’s conception in understanding structural transformations in Late Modernity and the role of the human subject in this process.

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