Research Article - (2021) Volume 14, Issue 77
Pierre Bourdieu, one of the contemporary theorists in sociology, is a figure in that he has suggested solutions to certain dilemmas of sociology. Firstly, among these dilemmas, it is the one which refers to a crisis of dualisms between structure and agent, objectivity and subjectivity and, theory and praxis within dualist tradition of sociology. He argues that this duality is a crisis that must be overcome. Secondly, it is obliged to emancipate the agent from vicious circle in the field which is confined by habitus. Thirdly, he prescribes “reflexivity” for sociologist in order to avoid approaching social facts through the knowledge produced by common sense or doxa. This study focuses on the reflexivity argument which is a contribution of Bourdieu and is one of his solutions to the aforementioned crises. In this context, reflexivity will be discussed methodologically and an idea of reflexive science in which the researcher relives from doxas or at least in which the researcher urges epistemological vigilance.