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A characteristic of social units is their ability of self-influencing. This property may be labelled ‘reflexivity’ of social processes. The problems associated with the reflexivity of social processes, to date far from being solved, are some of the most rigid obstacles to the progress of research in the field of social sciences and to the dealing with social strategic problems. ‘Self-fulfilling’, ‘self-destroying’, ‘counterintuitive consequences’ are only some of the concepts associated with the problem of reflexivity.
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Müller, N. (1980). Strategy and Reflexivity. In: Lewin, L., Vedung, E. (eds) Politics as Rational Action. Theory and Decision Library, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8955-9_7
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