Reflexivity in Ethnographic Research

Abstract

Discussing reflexivity in ethnography is not a new approach. It has been essential in the social sciences since the publication of Professor Malinowski's memoirs which led to the reflexive shift in anthropology when the ethnographer, the author, first became responsible for the crisis of objectivity regarding the fate of interpretive-explicative anthropology. This approach radically altered the anthropologist's relationship, the representations of actors (actors) in texts, and the reflexive understanding of the academic power of representation and the analysis of the process of movement, writing culture, became a necessary part of understanding the situation of the ethnographer in the case of fieldwork. Anthropology is no longer an objective, one-sided, and self-centered science. It is interpreted today because of its nature and its many faces that create a mosaic reflection in the ethnographic text shared by the ethnographer, respondents, and readers. When ethnographic research is combined with reflexivity in the various stages of research, from beginning to end, the ability to see a different reality is more likely. In this paper, we look at what reflexivity means in ethnographic work, its requirements, challenges and models for ethnographic texts with a reflexive nature.