"reflexive stance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a way of thinking that is constantly self-reflective and evaluates one's own actions, motives, and thoughts. For example, "John has always maintained a reflexive stance when making decisions, constantly examining how his decisions will affect himself and others."
It is now the reflexive stance of personal assistants, who are obsequious to their bosses but aggressively disdainful toward others; of hairstylists to the stars, who show up an hour late for appointments with regular clients; and of unemployed screenwriters, who cancel dinner plans with old friends because they are suddenly "busy".
The industry lobby's reflexive stance has been to deny the slightest possibility that cell phone radiation, high, low or mid-range, could ever be harmful.
Data will be co-analyzed including a reflexive stance and there will be frequent team discussions.
As SP is an acupuncture practitioner, it was important that a reflexive stance was maintained throughout the study.
Taking a reflexive stance, we need to give a brief explanation of how the researchers are positioned contextually in relation to this research [ 40].
Throughout we attempted to adopt a reflexive stance by maintaining an awareness of our influence over the research process and outcomes [ 47].
In this context, contemporary research stresses the plurality and relative malleability of human subjects as well as their ability to take reflexive stances on their current and past experiences.
The war in Iraq has shown signs of a similar split: a pro-war faction of the liberal intelligentsia has rejected a reflexive antiwar stance to form a movement of its own.
Although this vested interest may have potentially biased the study team, all members were reflexive in their stance and approached the project as researchers focused on the research question.
Whatever actual resolve Republicans may have had to work across party lines seemed to dissolve overnight, and they reverted to the more familiar stance of reflexive opposition.
But unlike the enlightenment philosophers at least in their most undialectical championing of progress Novalis believes that the past can itself offer resources for a critical-reflexive discussion of and stance towards the present.
