Introduction: how does structure influence agency? -- 1. The private life of the social subject -- 2. From introspection to internal conversation: an unfinished journey in three stages -- 3. Reclaiming the internal conversation -- 4. The process of mediation between structure and agency -- 5. Investigating internal conversations -- 6. Communicative reflexives -- 7. Autonomous reflexives -- 8. Meta-reflexives -- 9. Fractured reflexives -- Conclusion: personal powers and social powers