Reflexivity: one step up

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An approach to reflexivity based on only one level of self-reference is presented as an alternative to both the 'flat' discourse of naturalism and the infinite layers of reflexivity characteristic of metadiscourse. Topics include Bruno Latour's discussion of meta- and infra- reflexivity, circular reasoning, vicious reflexivities, views of Sandra Harding and Pierre Bourdieu, and reflexive critique in relation to intellectual rivalry.

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Privileged nomads: on the strangeness of intellectuals and the intellectuality of strangers

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This article examines the relationship between images of the postmodern intellectual and that of the stranger or exile throughout social history. The author criticizes the elitist presumption of the nomadic intellectual's self-identification with identities that can transgress cultural boundaries and traditional subjectivity.

Psychological aspects, Social aspects, Methods, Intellectuals, Sociology, Sociological methods, Postmodernism, Deconstruction

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Against reflexivity as an academic virtue and source of privileged knowledge

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Reflexivity should not be identified with 'radical' theoretical programs or regarded as a methodological virtue. An ethnomethodological conception of reflexivity is recommended.

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