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| What is self-reflexivity in sociology? |
Sociology as a knowledge system helps to create self-reflexivity which is the ability to copy others and make yourself better. Sociology helps to find the reflection of society in the textbooks. The research methods of sociology help to find a reflection of society. Learning sociology helps to look at yourself from the outside and how do you appear to others it helps you to look at yourself through the perspective of others. |
| Learning sociology helps to look at yourself from the outside and how do you appear to others it helps you to look at yourself through the perspective of others. |
| 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, so to speak. This is called ‘self-reflexivity’, or sometimes just reflexivity. This is the ability to reflect upon yourself, to turn back 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. |
