reflexivity

is a 'return' that extends beyond the experiencing subject to encompass the organizational and cognitive structure of the discipline. In other words, the subject of reflexivity is the social scientific field in toto.

The ''return'' it calls for extends beyond the experiencing subject to encompass the organizational and cognitive structure of the discipline. What has to be constantly scrutinized and neutralized, i11 tire very act of construction of the object, is the collective scientific unconscious embedded in theories, problems, and ( especially national) categories of scholarly judgment (Bourdieu 1990j).

is an attempt to cope with one's consciousness of the consequences of other-direction and role-taking in onself [so as to] approach that dream of social science: The utterly detached observer.

a psychological step or two beyond other-direction and role-taking because its distinctive preoccupation is with making those processes problematic... it attempts to cope with one's consciousness of the consequences of other-direction and role-taking in onself [so as to] approach that dream of social science: the utterly detached observer' (1981: 222)

is an exercise of thought in which thinking is an object.

By reflexivity Foucault means exercises of thought in which the act of thinking is itself made an object of thought' (Rabinow 2003:8).

is an interrogation of the limitations of social position, of field and of the scholastic point of view, which together are constitutive of knowledge itself.

a sort of conscious comprehension that he names 'reflexivity'. Bourdieu defines reflexivity as an interrogation of the three types of limitations (of social position, of field and of the scholastic point of view) that are constitutive of knowledge itself. But the reflexive relation to the habitus, the demands and influences exerted by cultural fields, and one's own practices within those fields, cannot be understood simply as something that is obtained by the subject... rather, any reflexive relation to the doxa and illusion of the field must be a constitutive part of that field. (tony shirato & jen webb BOURDIEU'S CONCEPT OF REFLEXIVITY AS METALITERACY)

is characteristic of social science insofar as the knowledge it generates is 'injected' back into the reality it describes.

Social science is reflexive in the sense that the knowledge it generates is ''injected'' back into the reality it describes.

is characteristic of society insofar as society evolves the capacity to control and program its own development.

Finally, society can be said to be reflexive as it evolves the capacity to control and program its own development '

is characteristic of subjects insofar as they are 'concept-bearing animals' who possess the capacity to 'turn back upon' and monitor their own actions.

Giddens (1984, 1987, 1990b), in tum, refers to reflexivity in all three senses and with three referents: agency, science, and society. Subjects are said to be reflexive insofar as they are ''concept-bearing animals'' who possess the capacity to ''turn back upon'' and monitor their own actions. Social science is reflexive in the sense that the knowledge it generates is ''injected'' back into the reality it describes'

is concerned not with the politics surrounding the analysis of an object, but rather with the very act of construction of the object, which is ultimately, the collective scientific unconscious that is embedded in theories, problems, and (especially national) categories of scholarly judgment.

What has to be constantly scrutinized and neutralized, in the very act of construction of the object, is the collective scientific unconscious embedded in theories, problems, and (especially national) categories of scholarly judgment (Bourdieu 1990J).

reflexivity, n.Definitions

reflexivity