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Modernization, Rationalization, and Education: Responding to the Other

Papastephanou, Marianna - In: Sociological Research Online 6 (2001) 3

ethnocentric vices (Martha Nussbaum's term) it staves off. I conclude with some suggestions for a sociology of education that is …

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'We Aren't Racing a Fair Race': Rawls, Sen, and the Paralympic Games

Thomas, Gareth Martin; Banks, Tim - In: Sociological Research Online 18 (2013) 3, pp. 14-14

(1971) and Amartya Sen (2009), specifically in terms of considering justice as fairness, we deconstruct the principle of … work of Sen to highlight its complexity in this context and the need to retreat from taken-for-granted assumptions …

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A Reflexive Account of Reusing Qualitative Data: Beyond Primary/secondary Dualism

Bishop, Libby - In: Sociological Research Online 12 (2007) 3, pp. 2-2

Though secondary analysis of qualitative data is becoming more prevalent, relatively few methodological studies exist that provide reflection on the actual, not idealised, process. This paper offers a reflexive account of secondary analysis focused on the topic of convenience food and choice....

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Researching Drug Sellers: an 'Experiential' Account from 'the Field'

Ward, Jenni - In: Sociological Research Online 13 (2008) 1, pp. 14-14

timely contribution to discussions of \'reflexivity\' in the research process, as well as the discourse on social sciences …

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Reflexivity and Sociological Practice

May, Tim - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 3

Attention to reflexivity is often assumed to be the means through which the assumptions and values of social scientists …

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Ethnographic Intimacy: Thinking Through the Ethics of Social Research in Sex Worlds

Pérez-y-Pérez, Maria; Stanley, Tony - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 2, pp. 13-13

Ethnographic researchers entering sensitive fields of research become entangled in ethical dilemmas when they encounter \'sticky\' questions, situations and issues. In undertaking research within two distinct sex worlds: female sex work and male sexual negotiation/risk and HIV, we struggled to...

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The Subject of Functional Foods: Accounts of Using Foods Containing Phytosterols

Weiner, Kate - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 2, pp. 7-7

This paper explores the notion of the late modern or reflexive subject, for whom consumption, rationality, autonomy and a reflexive attitude to risk are said to be constitutive. Drawing on an example of \'ordinary\' health consumption (Gronow and Warde, 2001), the paper addresses what kinds of...

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Nice and Tidy: Translation and Representation

Temple, Bogusia - In: Sociological Research Online 10 (2005) 2

Across many disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, writers and researchers are concerned with how language is used to construct representations of people in written and oral accounts. There is also increasing interest in...

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Reflexivity or Sociological Practice: A Reply to May

Slack, Roger - In: Sociological Research Online 5 (2000) 1

The paper constitutes a response to May's concept of reflexivity, and argues that debates on reflexivity have missed … address. A re-articulation of claims to reflexivity is made in the distinction between 'essential' and 'stipulative … work of Garfinkel (1967) as a means of respecifying the grounds of the reflexivity debate. …

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Sociology, What's It For? A Critique of Gouldner

Hammersley, Martyn - In: Sociological Research Online 4 (1999) 3

corrosive effects of the kind of sociological analysis he applies in criticising others. I contrast this with the reflexivity … advocated by Steve Woolgar, deriving from the sociology of scientific knowledge. Woolgar suggests that reflexivity is always …

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