This book provides students and researchers with clear guidance through this tricky, but fundamental aspect of qualitative, ethnographic research. The chapters provide a concise overview that clarifies, illustrates and develops a highly popular methodological principle.

This book provides students and researchers with clear guidance through this tricky, but fundamental, aspect of ethnographic and other qualitative research methods. This concise overview clarifies, illustrates and develops a highly popular methodological principle. To some extent, the book is critical of some contemporary approaches, particularly those that portray reflexivity as an optional, virtuous extra. Drawing on a broad range of anthropological, sociological and other sources, it illuminates through example as well as by precept.Emilie Morwenna Whitaker is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford, UK, and an Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK.Paul Atkinson is Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) in Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. He has written or co-authored over 20 books.

Explores the fact that reflexivity is pervasive: it is not optional, and cannot be ‘solved’ Shows that the practical implications of reflexivity run much deeper than mere self-awareness Amply and effectively illustrated with a wide variety of ethnographic studies from different disciplinary fields