reflexivityasking
Reflexivityasking is a practice within qualitative inquiry and related fields that centers on eliciting reflection about how social position, power, norms, and prior assumptions influence knowledge production. It combines reflexivity—the awareness of one’s own influence on research—with extracting responses that reveal how respondents’ own identities and contexts shape their views. In use, researchers design prompts and discussion tasks that invite participants to articulate how their backgrounds and surroundings influence their perspectives, while researchers disclose their own positionalities and potential biases.
Common methods include scripted meta-questions at the start or during interviews, such as: What assumptions are
Applications span anthropology, sociology, education, user research, and organizational studies, where reflexivityasking is used to surface
The term is typically discussed in relation to broader reflexivity in qualitative methods and to related concepts