CUET Preparation Today
| Sociology helps you to turn your gaze at yourself. Which process is being referred to here? |
Self-reflexivity. intersectionality Anonymity Cosmopolitanism |
| Self-reflexivity. |
| What may be of even more interest to you is that sociology can show you what you look like to others; it can teach you how to look at yourself ‘from the outside’. This is called ‘self-reflexivity’, or sometimes just reflexivity. This is the ability to reflect upon yourself and turn your gaze (which is usually directed outward) back towards yourself. But this self-inspection must be critical – i.e., it should be quick to criticise and slow to praise oneself. |
