Reflexivity: The Essential Guide

One marvels at its comprehensiveness, precision, and lucidity. Highly useful for students and established scholars alike.--Mustafa Emirbayer . Both intellectually rigorous and practically applicable, this book is essential reading for students across the social sciences."--Karen O'ReillySpanning philosophy and social science, disciplined inquiry and individual reflection and theory and practice, this new work provides an invaluable overview of the key thinkers, ideas and issues involved in the reflexive turn in social inquiry. "Finally, a sensible, detailed and complex analysis of reflexivity in all its guises

Beth joined the Urban Institute in September 2016, following her appointment as a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Since 2010 she has been the UK Programme Lead for the Mistra Urban Futures Centre, with headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden and sits on the International Board. Beth’s research focuses on critically interrogating and developing pathways to more just s

Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of real research settings, this book:Pinpoints the importance of reflexivity in social researchDemonstrates its relevance to everyday lifeFirmly locates the concept in the history of ideasExplores key questions about the bases of knowledge and understandingPresents key thinkers, concepts and issues in easy-to-understand learning boxes The result is a book that provides students and researchers in the social sciences with the knowledge and understanding necessary not only to examine the role of reflexivity in contemporary life, but to apply it in their own research practice.. 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. Reflexivitythe critical examination of how we see the worldis 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