A Future for Critique

Positioning, Belonging and Reflexivity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2397579
AutoresTim May (0000-0002-5040-8229, University of Salford, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas157-173
Fecha de publicación2000-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13684310022224741
OpenAlexW2088339817
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas41

The principal aim of this article is to examine the relations between positioning and belonging in terms of the potential for critique of existing social conditions. The underlying purpose is to inform social scientific engagement with social life in order to illuminate the potential for social transformation via reflexivity. These discussions will be informed by the division of reflexivity into two dimensions: endogenous and referential. It is argued that this enables the social scientist to highlight the pre-reflexive world and render it problematic and demonstrates how the objectivity of the social world is both a presupposition and ongoing achievement of everyday interactions. To that extent, the possibility for social conditions to be otherwise is then open to scrutiny

Epistemology · Everyday life · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Reflexivity · Scrutiny · Social change · Social order · Social science · Social transformation · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law