Reflexive Theory


Definition: There are many definitions of reflexivity, but one is the emergent level of human organization beyond the reflectivity of self-consciousness which is inherently social in nature and, therefore, intrinsicly dialogical between Self and the genuine Other, being the social fabric that preceeds the formation of individuals.


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Alan Blum Theorizing (Pub. Heinemann Educational; London. UK 1974), Socrates: The original and its images (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1978)


Damjan Bojadziev researches self-reference in logic, language and computation

Pierre Bourdieu Invitation to a Reflexive Sociology (University of Chicago Press, 1992)


Alvin Gouldner The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1970)

Peter McHugh Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences (Humanities Press, 1984); Friends, Enemies, and Strangers: Theorizing in Art, Science, and Everyday Life, Alan Blum and Peter McHugh, eds., (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1979); On the Beginning of Social Inquiry, McHUGH, Peter / RAFFEL, Stanley / FOSS, Daniel C. / BLUM, Alan F.: ; (London/Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974); Defining the Situation - The Organization of Meaning in Social Interaction (Bobbs-Merrill 1968)

Roger Bishop Jones Thoughts on embedding of Proof Languages (Z into HOL) in ProofPower

Don Kunze has developed a Boundary Language based on G. Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form and Lacan.

John O'Malley Sociology of Meaning

John O'Neill Sociology as a Skin Trade: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology (Heinemann 1972).

Kent Palmer Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory Reflexive Sociology

Barry Sandywell Logological Investigations

Sturdy, J. C. G. A Lisp through the Looking Glass

Arpad Szakolczai Reflexive Historical Sociology (Routledge; Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 2000)


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Reflexive sociology - Says Alvin Gouldner in The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, "a Reflexive Sociology is and would need to be a radical sociology. Radical, because it would recognize that knowledge of the world cannot be advanced apart from the sociologist's knowledge of himself and his position in the social world, or apart from his efforts to change these. Radical, because it seeks to transform as well as to know the alien world inside him. Radical, because it would accept the fact that the roots of sociology pass through the sociologist as a total man, and that the question he must confront, therefore, is not merely how to work, but how to live... The historical mission of a Reflexive Sociology is to transcend sociology as it now exists. In deepening our understanding of our own sociological selves and of our position in the world, we can, I believe, simultaneously help to produce a new breed of sociologists who can also better understand other men and their social worlds. A Reflexive Sociology means that we sociologists must - at the very least - acquire the ingrained habit of viewing our own beliefs as we now view those held by others." Harold Garfinkel has also approached this idea in an interesting manner with his contention that sociologists are like goldfish swimming in a bowl, confidently analyzing other goldfish, without having ever stopped to recognize the bowl and the water they have in common with the fish they study. - Alvin Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1970). [See http://www.raynet.mcmail.com/link6.htm]