Reflexivity (social theory)
IN SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, THE CIRCULAR RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
Reflexivity (sociology)
In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures. A reflexive relationship is bidirectional with both the cause and the effect affecting one another in a relationship in which neither can be assigned as causes or effects.