An Anthropological Study on the Multiplicity of "Reflexive" Thoughts and Practices

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23251022
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: OSUGI TAKASHI 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 教授 (10298747)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KASUGA Naoki 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 教授 (60142668) ; OKAZAKI Akira 一橋大学, 大学院社会学研究科, 特任教授 (00409971) ; HAMAMOTO Mitsuru 九州大学, 人間環境学研究院, 教授 (40156419) ; ODA Makoto 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 教授 (50214143) ; SEKINE Yasumasa 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40108197) ; MAGIMA Ichiro 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (10251563) ; NAKAGAWA Osamu 立教大学, 異文化コミュニケーション学部, 准教授 (30402986) ; MORITA Atsuro 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 准教授 (20436596) ; FUKADA Juntaro 中央学院大学, 法学部, 講師 (70643104) ; MOHASCI Gergely 大阪大学, 人間科学研究科, 招へい研究員 (90587672)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / 再帰性 / 回帰性 / 比較 / 文脈 / 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By elucidating the mechanism of “reflexive modernity” and comparing it with those of other modes of reflexivity, our project explored the way “reflexive modernity” can be relativized by, and symmetrically discussed with, multiple other manifestations. Our findings are: a) Modern reflexive thoughts and practices are mediated by artifactual devices which enable us to imagine the meta-level cut off from the object level; b) Reflexivity found in more lateral networks is characterized by recursive processes that nullify the difference of the two levels; c) Any operation of reflexivity requires, as a prerequisite, the “curving out” of the context of activities it tries to act upon, but does so differently.

Free Research Field

文化人類学