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Constraints on the Internal Conversation: Margaret Archer and the Structural Shaping of Thought
Author(s) -
MUTCH ALISTAIR
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal for the theory of social behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.615
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5914
pISSN - 0021-8308
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2004.00257.x
Subject(s) - conversation , psychology , cognitive science , sociology , epistemology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , communication
Margaret Archer has recently provided a persuasive account of the importance of the internal conversation to reflexivity. This raises questions about the shaping of such conversations by involuntary agential positioning. The work of Bourdieu and Bernstein is reviewed to suggest that structural influences can operate by condi‐tioning the resources available for the conducting of the internal conversation. Particular emphasis is placed on the transfer of taken for granted ideas from one domain of practice to another.