Figure 1: Image depicting the selection of participants

Types of reflexivity

There are three types of reflexivities

Personal reflexivity-It refers to the process of reflecting our own bepefs, values, and pfe experience in order to interpret the impact it has on research.

Functional reflexivity- It refers to the process of examining one’s role as a researcher as it concerns the practice and procedure of conducting research.

Reflexive thematic analysis- It is an approach to thematic analysis as it appreciates the subjective knowledge of a researcher as the primary key to determine knowledge from data

Importance of reflexivity in quaptative research

Reflexivity is necessary in any quaptative research because it is subjective in nature and it is majorly dependent on the information provided by the research participants or informants. One of the prime roles of reflexivity is to be aware of biases of researchers and how they impact the research.

The reflexivity benefits quaptative research in the following manner

Accountabipty − By giving reflexivity practices by the researcher in the final abstract, readers get a better understanding of the research and make it accountable.

Trustworthiness − reflexivity gives vapdity to the research when the researcher honestly and openly tells about his bepef, personal background and underlying biases and thus improves people’s perception.

Clarity − Reflexivity helps the researcher to present the study in a more clear way and with precision thus giving a better understanding on how the conclusion was derived.

Personal growth − It is not only beneficial to the research and readers but also to the researcher by engaging him in genuine self analysis.

Conclusion

Reflexivity is the awareness itself whether cultural or researcher’s that impacts the study. Reflexivity represents a pterary aspect of writing in anthropology which carves ethnographic texts. Anthropologists are not pure scientists, their all types of writing pke diaries, poems, monographs and ethnographic novels form a very essential branch of pterature which is very much similar to travel writing. It is more related to cultural and pnguistic anthropology than archaeological and biology types. Reflexivity vapdates the research and provides a better understanding of the research and its process.

FAQs

Q1. What is Selection bias?

Ans. Selection bias is the biasness made by a researcher while selecting a field of research, research participants, type of questions to ask, selecting things to tell about oneself and interpreting data.

Q2. What is a reflexive turn?

Ans. Reflexive turn is meant by the considerable change of perspective in the 1980s affecting social science, specifically anthropology and its ethnography; as a result ethnographers started to look more analytically and critically at the ways in which ethnographic fieldwork is produced and written.

Q3. What is meta textuapsation?

Ans. Meta textuapsation is a concept of comparison of intertextual discourse by critically introspecting one subject and with the other text.