Reflexivity - The Essential Guide

Informationen zum Autor Tim May is a professor of Social Science Methodology in the Sheffield Methods Institute. Tim originally trained and worked as an agricultural engineer and then studied at the LSE, Surrey, and Plymouth universities. In addition to teaching across a range of subjects, his research has been funded by national and international research councils and the public, voluntary, and private sectors, including universities. He has written and edited 17 books, including new editions, edited a book series, and written over 180 articles, book chapters, research reports, and policy briefings on topics that include social research; reflexivity and research methodology; management and organizational change; knowledge, universities and urban development and knowledge exchange and policy. Professor Beth Perry is Professorial Fellow in the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. 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 sustainable urban futures. She focusses on urban governance, transformation and the roles of universities, with an emphasis on socio-environmental and socio-cultural transitions. She has written widely on these issues and is currently working with Prof Tim May at the Sheffield Methods Institute on two co-authored monographs on reflexive social scientific knowledge production and the changing relationships between cities and knowledge. She is working with Tim on two major ESRC grants as well as the delivery of an international programme of work on Realising Just Cities. Jam and Justice: Co-producing Urban Governance for Social Innovation is a three-year project funded by the ESRC Urban Transformations programme, with partners at the Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation and the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham. Whose Knowledge Matters? Competing and Contesting Knowledge Claims in 21st Century Cities is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield and the University of Twente in the Netherlands funded by the Open Research Area initiative and focussed on citizen knowledges in sustainable urban development projects. Beth leads a team of researchers at the Urban Institute working across these projects. Klappentext With coverage of both original ideas and the authors' own practical experiences, this book helps readers to unlock the importance of reflexivity and understand its benefits. Zusammenfassung With coverage of both original ideas and the authors’ own practical experiences, this book helps readers to unlock the importance of reflexivity and understand its benefits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction What is reflexivity? The structure of the book The reflexive difference Chapter 1: Thought and Knowledge in the History of Ideas Introduction In search of certainty Context matters Enduring concepts: reason and scepticism return Summary: reflexivity rooted Chapter 2: Will, Interpretation and Being Introduction The will and representation Facts, values and interpretations Interpretation and being Summary: reflexivity matters Chapter 3: Pragmatism, Practice and Language Introduction Thought, action and the self Thought, actio...

List of contents

Introduction
What is reflexivity?
The structure of the book
The reflexive difference
Chapter 1: Thought and Knowledge in the History of Ideas
Introduction
In search of certainty
Context matters
Enduring concepts: reason and scepticism return
Summary: reflexivity rooted
Chapter 2: Will, Interpretation and Being
Introduction
The will and representation
Facts, values and interpretations
Interpretation and being
Summary: reflexivity matters
Chapter 3: Pragmatism, Practice and Language
Introduction
Thought, action and the self
Thought, action and other minds
Language, meaning and everyday speech
Summary: reflexivity embedded
Chapter 4: Critique and Transformation
Introduction
Critical theory
Recovering the promise of reason
Critiquing critique
Summary: Reflexive relations
Chapter 5: Power and Action
Introduction
Power and the subject
A Realpolitik of reason
Standpoints and difference
Summary: Reflexive limits
Chapter 6: The Dynamics of Science in Society
Introduction
Co-producing society
'New' modes of knowledge production
Co-producing research
Summary: Reflexivity centred
Chapter 7: Reflexive Practice
Introduction
The work of making context
The context of making work
Reflexive research design
Summary: Reflexive messes
Chapter 8: Reflexivity Realised
Introduction
Who am I?
How do I relate to others?
Why and how might I practice?
Final words

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"Finally, a sensible, detailed and complex analysis of reflexivity in all its guises. Both intellectually rigorous and practically applicable, this book is essential reading for students across the social sciences."

Karen O'Reilly

Product details

• Authors: Tim May, Tim Perry May, May Tim, Beth Perry, Perry Beth
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781446295168
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-9516-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics