Look up: reflexivity

1. reflexivity
   a term used to refer to foregrounding by a text of its own made-ness or constructed-ness. For those of you who study drama, this will be familiar as Brecht's 'alienation effect'. Brecht was concerned to avoid the 'swindle' involved in naturalistic theatre's pretence that the play 'happened' rather t...
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2. Reflexivity
   This describes the connections between knowledge and social life. The knowledge we gain about society can affect the way in which we act in it. For instance, reading a survey about the high level of support for a political party might lead an individual to express support for that party too.
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3. reflexivity
   [n] - the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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4. Reflexivity
   in its broad meaning this is used to refer to the capacity of researchers to reflect upon their actions and values during research, whether in producing data or writing accounts. More narrowly, ethnomethodologists use the term to describe a property of language, which reflects upon actions to make them appear orderly.
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5. reflexivity
   reflexiveness noun the coreferential relation between a reflexive pronoun and its antecedent
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6. reflexivity
   (from the article `formal logic`) A relation that always holds between any object and itself is said to be reflexive; i.e., is reflexive if()(example: `is identical with`). If ... ...or .` Since preference constitutes a relationship, its three types can be classed in terms of certain distinctions commonly drawn in th...
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7. Reflexivity
   A dyadic relation R is called reflexive if xRx holds for all x within a certain previously fixed domain which must include the field of R (cf. logic, formal, § 8). In the propositional calculus, the laws of reflexivity of material implication and material equivalence (the conditional and biconditional) are the theorems, p ? p, p = p...
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8. 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 therefor...
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