Risk and the regulated self : self-reflexivity through meditation in Poh Ming Tse.

• Main Author: Tan, Amanda Swee Ching.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences; DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43821
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...