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The Creativity of Action
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January 1998

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Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

Thomas Burger

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Hans Joas

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... In these contexts, practices that take place at the level of practical consciousness are replaced by discursive consciousness, which 'means being able to put things into words' (Giddens, 1984: 45). With discursive consciousness, past experiences and present conditions interact in an imaginative 'dialogue' over the future, which considers 'competing possible lines of action' (Dewey, 1930(Dewey, [1922: 190) because 'choices are imagined, evaluated, and contingently reconstructed by actors in ongoing dialogue with unfolding situations' (Emirbayer and Mische, 1998: 966; see also Joas, 1996). I propose to study this future projectivity in the context of three main types of future: expectations, imaginaries and narratives of the future. ...

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Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future
The Creativity of Action
  • Citing Article
  • January 1998

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews