0 the fact of someone being able to examine his or her own feelings, reactions, and motives (= reasons for acting) and how these influence what he or she does or thinks in a situation:
In other words reflexivity counters the biases the researcher brings to her research.
By reflexivity I mean the ability to stand back and look at your thinking and realise hey, maybe my view of reality is tainted by my desires.
He said that much of what passes for theoretically informed research lacks any sense of critical distance or reflexivity about its own production and procedures.
The agents' competence is assessed on the basis of their capacity for reflexivity and rationalisation of their actions.
There is a danger that reflexivity could be used to privilege a theoretical or methodological standpoint by contrasting it to an unreflexive counterpart.
For goddess groups, however, such questions or moments of reflexivity, might never present themselves.
This self reflexivity gives the individual some scope for stepping back from their social maelstrom to make choices.
The proof is standard apart from the condition on types, which only matters for reflexivity.
