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‘Reflexivity or Sociological Practice: A Reply to May’
Abstract
The paper constitutes a response to May's concept of reflexivity, and argues that debates on reflexivity have missed the need to ground their claims in the life world of society members - thus promoting the very ironic stance they seek to address. A re-articulation of claims to reflexivity is made in the distinction between ‘essential’ and ‘stipulative’ reflexivities wherein the former is grounded in members’ observable-reportable natural language practical actions, while the latter remains the province of the analyst and subjects members’ versions to sociological remedy. The paper suggests a return to the work of Garfinkel (1967) as a means of respecifying the grounds of the reflexivity debate.
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“This postmodern, constructivist challenge to naturalistic or 'naïve' ethnography, and the subsequent demands for 'reflexive' ethnography, with a more self-critical and sceptical orientation, has been challenged by those who conduct ethnomethodologically informed ethnographies (Sharrock 1995;Slack 2000).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Slack, R.
- Corresponding author
- Slack, Roger
- Venue
- Sociological Research Online
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-05
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 27-31
- ISSN
- 1360-7804 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1978849379
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociological Research Online (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- epress (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Critical Realism in Sociology
- Keywords
- reflexivity, sociological practice, lifeworld, Garfinkel, natural language, practical action, sociology of knowledge
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