Reflexivity: Theory, Method and Practice - Couverture rigide

Lumsden, Karen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138911860 ISBN 13 : 9781138911864

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Karen Lumsden is Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK.

Jan Bradford is a doctoral researcher in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Jackie Goode is Visiting Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138911860
• ISBN 13: 9781138911864
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible