Define Giddens’s modes of consciousness and how they connect to the concept of agency.
What will be an ideal response?
Giddens notes that although we often are unable to explicitly state the reasons for our behaviors, it does not necessarily follow that we do not know why we carried them out. Thus, much of our conduct is carried out with only our tacit, unspoken awareness of how and why we do what we do. Practical consciousness refers to what individuals know “about social conditions, including especially the conditions of their own action, but cannot express” in words (Giddens 1984:375). Discursive consciousness, on the other hand, refers to the capacity to explicitly state reasons or explanations for our conduct. The motivation of action refers to the wants and desires—often unconsciousness—that impel us to act. Yet, the individual’s intentional action is bounded by two dimensions of conduct that remain largely outside of his awareness but that nevertheless profoundly shape the ability to act.
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