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Understanding Change in Modern Society Understanding Change in Modern Society
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The Everyday Experience of Living in Late Modernity The Everyday Experience of Living in Late Modernity
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Home and Family Home and Family
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The Changing Role of Education in Late Modernity The Changing Role of Education in Late Modernity
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Peer Cultures On- and Offline Peer Cultures On- and Offline
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Identity: Being and Becoming Identity: Being and Becoming
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Social Change or Social Reproduction Social Change or Social Reproduction
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Conclusions: From Theory to Research Conclusions: From Theory to Research
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1 Living and Learning in the Digital Age
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Published:May 2016
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Abstract
Concepts of connection and disconnection are often claimed but rarely challenged: why is it good to connect - people, places, or ideas? This chapter frames our inquiry in terms of theory. Our starting point is that meaning itself is generated through connection. Identities are relationally constituted. Learning extends across sites and experiences. More than ever before, the networks of connection enmesh us seem both unlimited and inflexible. Yet the claims of the network society—underpinned by digital transformations—are overstated: identities are not infinitely flexible, institutions impose boundaries, privilege reproduces itself, and cultures are rooted in tradition even as they open up to new routes and flows. The chapter builds a framework for understanding both the shifting interrelations among identity, knowledge and power in a digitally networked age and the forces of social reproduction that sustain continuities with previous times. Our original analysis of childhood in the digital age – read through the lens of individualization and the risk society - is helpful in capturing the dilemmas and tensions that young people experience and that adult society projects on them. We acknowledge the critiques of these theories, insofar as they overstate individual agency, undervalue historical continuities, and celebrate the emancipatory potential of late modernity even as they foretell a gloomy vision of our future. We end with the key questions that drive our empirical inquiry.
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