An organic view of want formation: pragmatic rationality, habitus and reflexivity
2011 (English)In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, ISSN 0142-5692, E-ISSN 1465-3346, Vol. 32, no 4, p. 603-622Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Based on interviews with and questionnaires completed by upper secondary school pupils (n = 27) from academic and vocational programmes, respectively, the present paper focuses on some of the social and individual conditions that precede the individual decision-making process in education transitions. The paper shows that an organic view of decision-making is in better accordance with observations than is a hierarchical view, and thus supports previous research claiming that pragmatic rationality (based on habitus and reflexivity) plays a more important role in students’ decision-making processes than does instrumental rationally.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge , 2011. Vol. 32, no 4, p. 603-622
Keywords [en]
habitus; reflexivity; rational choice; uncertainty; want formation; pragmatic rationality
National Category
Sociology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-3230DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2011.578440Local ID: 2320/9765OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-3230DiVA, id: diva2:871327
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