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Reflexivity: Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods)

Reflexivity: Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods)

Karen Lumsden

This volume reviews key debates concerning reflexivity in theory, methods, and practice.

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Reflexivity is valuable in social research because it draws attention to the researcher as part of the world being studied and reminds us that the individuals involved in our research are subjects, not objects. By being reflexive we acknowledge that we cannot be separated from our biographies.

This volume reviews key debates concerning reflexivity in theory, methods, and practice. It mounts a defence of reflexivity against new materialist and post-qualitative critiques and the pressures exerted on scholars from the neoliberal marketized university system which privileges fast academia at the expense of slow, reflective scholarship. While defending reflexivity, this book also those identifies issues which plague mainstream sociological operationalizations of a positivistic form of reflexivity. It argues for the extension of reflexivity into domains otherwise neglected in public accounts, and a shift from reflexivity as an individualized quality of the researcher (used to judge peers and navel-gaze) to a feminist, collaborative, reflexive sensibility which is mindful of the wider contexts shaping the construction of knowledge(s), experience(s), and of the role of research communities.

Providing examples of reflexivity in action from academics at different stages of their careers, Reflexivity will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods, Criminology, Ethnography, and Ethics of Research.

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Title - Reflexivity: Theory, Method, and Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods)

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Author - Karen Lumsden

ISBN 13 - 9781138911864

Imprint - Routledge

Publisher - Taylor & Francis Ltd

Date Published - 03/01/2019

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Binding Type - Hardback

Dimensions - 156 x 234 x mm

Weight - 453 g

Languages - English