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Reflexivity
The Essential Guide
First Edition
- Tim May - Professor of Social Science Methodology, Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield, The University of Sheffield, UK
- Beth Perry - Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
September 2017 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Reflexivity—the critical examination of how we see the world—is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society generally. The text introduces a host of influential thinkers and their key ideas on reflexivity, and incorporates examples from a range of disciplines and research settings. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of real research settings, this book:
- Pinpoints the importance of reflexivity in social research
- Demonstrates its relevance to everyday life
- Firmly locates the concept in the history of ideas
- Explores key questions about the bases of knowledge and understanding
- Presents key thinkers, concepts and issues in easy-to-understand learning boxes
Introduction
Chapter 1: Thought and Knowledge in the History of Ideas
Chapter 2: Will, Interpretation and Being
Chapter 3: Pragmatism, Practice and Language
Chapter 4: Critique and Transformation
Chapter 5: Power and Action
Chapter 6: The Dynamics of Science in Society
Chapter 7: Reflexive Practice
Chapter 8: Reflexivity Realised
