Social epistemology and reflexivity: Two versions of how to be really useful |
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Authors: | Malcolm Ashmore |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, LE11 3TU Loughborough, UK |
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Abstract: | This essay argues that the really useful character of reflexivity is that it enables a radical critique of representation and its conventional material and rhetorical practices. It is uniquely able to produce paradox and thus disrupt discourses by undermining authorial privilege. Because Fuller's social epistemology is insensitive to its own reflexive implications, and limits itself to normative questions about knowledge policy, it is too limited — and limiting — to provide a context that can nurture reflexivity. |
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Keywords: | Epistemology normativity reflexivity social epistemology sociology of science sociology sociology of knowledge |
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