Reflexive

assumptions about the production of knowledge – how do we know, and who can claim to know? What is considered legitimate knowledge, and what role does power, identity and positionality play in this process? Finally, how does one put into practice the reflexive techniques and address methodological issues in a way that results in valid, good-quality social research? (Day, 2012:…

sociological studies and how this needs to be re-evaluated, a concept that can be described by the term “reflexive sociology”. I would argue that this is a perspective (although not one of the classical ones) being used by the Curtis (a critic of the Marxist approach for analysis of historical education). His life work is heavily based on this point of view (Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, 2017). Reflexive sociology doesn’t quite fall in with the classical perspectives of functionalism,…

1. What are garden path sentences (p. 369)? Explain why they often result in misanalysis. Garden path sentences are sentences that result in a misanalysis in the initial syntactic analysis. Reanalysis is required when the parser recognizes the misanalysis. Misanalysis happens because a garden path sentence has a noun phrase that seems to be attached to the syntactic representation of the sentence of the object of the verb, when instead it serves as the subject of the matrix clause verb and the…

Robert Flaherty is cited in creating the first documentary, with Nanook of the North, made in 1922, this film was wildly successful and generated obsession around this new genre documenting real people. Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson eventually adapted this filmic practice as a tool for documenting cultures for scientific purposes, founding the field of visual anthropology. Flaherty and Mead’s influence can be tracked to filmmaker John Marshall, who challenged the paradigms of spectacle and…

Photograph of Me” is a self-reflexive poem that depicts the “act of reading” (114). However, it will expand her argument by claiming that the poem not only portrays the difficulties of decoding but also of producing texts and that it rejects the idea of a final reading. The beginning of the poem depicts the creation of a literary work, which starts as an assemblage of vague ideas and then gradually morphs into a concrete text. According to Gohrbandt and Von Lutz, self-reflexive poems – that is…

World War II that induced a loss of faith in humanity and science. Composers experimented with language and form, attempting to communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through destabilising techniques such as gaze, self-reflexive construction, parody and pastiche, reflecting the postmodernist theories of Laura Mulvey, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. These challenges to certainty are exemplified in Sally…

Oppenheimer uses a reflexive approach, of a documentary inside a documentary, to allow the audience a glimpse of the realities of the death squads. This theme is carried through by utilizing the 'villains' as the stars of their own documentary, enabling the audience to witnesses…

seem to have made especially large impact, such as his extensive excavations at the site of Çatalhöyük, which later became an experimental ground for his reflexive excavation theories. This essay will attempt to shed light on Hodder’s contribution to the development of archaeological thought through examples of his work in the development of reflexive archaeology and material culture. As a term, post-processual is a very broad and complex set of ideas that formed in the late 1970s and early…

Research: Teenage girls with the lack of education Step 1: Why we chose this topic Lack of education has been a worldwide issue since a very long time, many people like Malala Yousafzai, have fought for the rights of education of girls. Despite many tries and determinations “121 million children worldwide do not attend school - 9 million more girls than boys. The report says an estimated 65 million girls are being denied basic education, increasing the likelihood they will live in poverty or…

Abigail Fiegel A07 A person or animal can use many different techniques to learn different behaviors but the two most common ways are operant conditioning and classical conditioning. Operant conditioning is a way of learning based on the consequences that arise in the environment as a result of the behavior that has just been completed. Usually there is a change in the behavior due to the consequences resulting from the behavior. On the other hand classical conditioning is a technique used…