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Cyber Psychics : A reflexive journey. Tamlyn Ryan PhD Candidate Department of Sociology University of York tr519@york.ac.uk.
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Cyber Psychics: A reflexive journey Tamlyn Ryan PhD Candidate Department of Sociology University of York tr519@york.ac.uk
How can you hide that part of you? How can you expect to keep that part of you out of your research? It is you, of course it is going to impact on your research and why shouldn’t it? Professor Charles Emmons (Gettysburg, PA)
A reflexive sociological study… depends on exploring the limits of the sociologist’s self-understanding of the sociological project. [It] must pay attention to the social structures and processes under which knowledge is produced and legitimated; such a focus precludes analyzing texts alone Furhman and Oehler (1986: 304-5)