Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 08:39:54 +0200 From: Jeremias Blaser <Jeremias.Blaser-AT-iepi.unil.ch> Subject: Re: HAB: reflexive theory > What's Bourdieu's sense of reflexive? I' am sorry for that, I thought this guy was familiar to everybody so please forgive me if this wasn't the case. To put it shortly Bourdieu speaks about reflexivity as an epistemological attitude which especially sociologists should develop. Basically he means that one important source of error in social science is an uncontrolled relationship between the researcher and his object which implies that the researcher tends to project this uncontrolled relation in his researchobject. Bourdieu's purpose to avoid this type of spontaneaous analysis is a reflexivity in social science which consist in analysing it's own position in the field of scientific production while analysing objects like "education politics", "language" "social mouvement" etc. etc. This practice should lead first to a better understanding of what we are doing socially when we practice social sciences; second this reflexivity should contribute to a social theory which is aware and capable to handle the epistemocentrism of research. I was wondering if Habermas has made similar reflections concerning this issue especially because Bourdieu's purposes come out of his empirical research and practice, while Habermas hasn't really done empirical research. If anybody has any comment, please go ahead regards Jeremias P.S. hope my english is understandable Jeremias Blaser IEPI BFSH 2 Université de Lausanne 1015 Dorigny (VD) Switzerland Tel. 0041 21 692 31 36 Fax. 0041 21 692 31 45 --- from list habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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