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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830031103321

Titolo

Reflexivity [[electronic resource] ] : a practical guide for researchers in health and social sciences / / edited by Linda Finlay and  Brendan Gough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, c2003

ISBN

1-281-31089-1

9786611310899

0-470-70986-3

0-470-77609-9

0-470-77698-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FinlayLinda <1957->

GoughBrendan

Disciplina

001.4/2

610.72

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Medical sciences - Research - Methodology

Qualitative research

Reflection (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

REFLEXIVITY: A Practical Guide for Researchers in Health and Social Sciences -- Contents -- Contributors; Prologue -- Part I: Introducing Reflexivity -- 1. The reflexive journey: mapping multiple routes -- 2. Deconstructing reflexivity -- Part II: Personal Reflexivity -- 3. Necessary subjectivity: exploiting researchers' motives, passions and prejudices in pursuit of answering 'true' questions -- 4. Three journeys towards reflexivity -- 5. Navigating multiple research identities: reflexivity in discourse analytic research -- 6. Developing a critically reflexive position using discourse analysis

7. Reflexivity as presence: a journey of self-inquiry -- Part III: Reflexivity Within Relationships -- 8. Through the looking glass: intersubjectivity and hermeneutic reflection -- 9. Analysing the



interviewer: the joint construction of accounts of psychotic experience --10. Reflexivity, 'bias' and the in-depth interview: developing shared meanings -- 11. Shifting researcher positions during a group interview study: a reflexive analysis and re-view -- Part IV: Reflexivity Through Collaboration -- 12. Doing reflexivity: a collaborative, narrative approach

13. Shifting identities: the negotiation of meanings between texts and between persons -- 14. Researcher as storyteller and performer: parallels with playback theatre -- 15. Using reflexivity to loosen theoretical and organisational knots within participatory action research -- 16. Holding up the mirror to widen the view: multiple subjectivities in the reflexive team -- Epilogue -- 17. The next turn: reflexively analysing reflexive research -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reflexivity is a popular tool used to analyse personal, intersubjective and social processes which shape research projects. It enables researchers, particularly within the qualitative tradition, to acknowledge their role and the situated nature of their research. In the current climate, which sees the popularity of qualitative methods coupled with increased public and professional scrutiny of research, reflexivity provides a means of bolstering greater transparency and quality in research.  This book recognises the considerable value of reflexivity to researchers, and provides a me