Anthropos Consulting - Corporate Anthropology. Australian Aborigines Anthropological techniques and methods are becoming increasingly necessary in the process of understanding organizations and planning their future.
The individuals in an organization are able to devote more energy and dedication to the organization’s success when the cultural values of the organization are detected, unveiled, and respected. Every company has a ‘culture’, which is often unnoticed, yet in fact, it defines and differentiates the company from other organizations. This ‘culture’ is shaped by a combination of the traditions (past), needs (present), and aspirations (future) of the organization and its leaders. With the comprehension of its ‘culture’, the organization is able to grow in a safer manner, exploiting the basis for succeeding and making the necessary adjustments without infringing the organization’s core values. Compartilhe com: Reflexivity as method - Health Sociology Review. As an educator of social work professionals, I have developed the use of the reflective approach for both learning and research (Fook 1996), and have become an advocate of the importance of reflectivity in the practice of professionals.
At the same time, I am also aware that the notion of reflexivity has taken on growing importance in the research world. I am often asked about my understanding of the difference between reflectivity and reflexivity. I have been guilty in the past of happily conflating the two ideas, assuming that differences simply arose out of the separate traditions in which they had been fostered. Recently, my more glib response has been to distinguish between reflexivity as a position, and reflectivity as a general process.
At the heart of this differentiation is the thinking that a position of reflexivity, of an ability to locate yourself in the picture, is complemented by a process of reflectivity. Fanon F (1967) Black Skin, White Masks, Grove Press, New York. Reflexive Pedagogy. Over the past few months, we at ProfHacker have written articles about class/course assessment and how important it is to get students’ input in class evaluations.
Certainly, course evaluations contain important information for the instructor and the university, but they rarely measure what the students actually learned in that course. We can use traditional methods of evaluation to gauge what students have learned, and that helps us (giving tests, assigning grades). But do these traditional methods of assessment and evaluation of student work help students recognize what they have learned? Self-reflexivity can help students and educators identify the “what” and the “why” of student learning. Reflexivity is not to be confused with reflection. Reflexivity, on the other hand, is to engage in the moment, to understand the thoughts and feelings of an experience while experiencing that experience. This dual understanding becomes key if we want students to retain what they have learned. Reflexivity (social theory) Reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect.
A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a situation that does not render both functions causes and effects. In sociology, reflexivity therefore comes to mean an act of self-reference where examination or action "bends back on", refers to, and affects the entity instigating the action or examination. In Economics reflexivity refers to the self-reinforcing effect of market sentiment, whereby rising prices attract buyers whose actions drive prices higher still until the process becomes unsustainable and the same process operates in reverse leading to a catastrophic collapse in prices. It is an instance of a feedback loop.
Reflexivity is, therefore, a methodological issue in the social sciences analogous to the observer effect. Sociologist Robert K. Michel Foucault's The Order of Things can be said to touch on the issue of Reflexivity.