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Critical realism and qualitative research in psychology

Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2022
Qualitative researchers wishing to circumnavigate the limitations of positivism, on the one hand, and strong constructionism, on the other, tend to be attracted to critical realism (CR), which offers a middle ground between the two: CR combines ...
M. Willis
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Explaining objective forces, driving forces, and causal mechanisms affecting the formation and expansion of the peri-urban areas: A critical realism approach

, 2021
Accelerated urbanization in peri-urban areas of metropolises is one of the emerging issues of the past decades which has numerous physical, social, economic, and environmental consequences in these areas. Such a process converts the peri-urban areas into
H. Dadashpoor, S. Ahani
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Critical Realism

2021
This chapter evaluates critical realism, a term which refers to a philosophy of science connected to the broader approach of scientific realism. In contrast to other philosophies of science, such as positivism and post-positivism, critical realism presents an alternative view on the questions of what is ‘real’ and how one can generate scientific ...
Dominik Giese, Jonathan Joseph
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Using critical realism and abduction to navigate theory and data in operations and supply chain management research

, 2021
Operations and supply chain management (OSCM) is a theoretically and philosophically fragmented field. Researchers must consider how they use theory and explain empirical phenomena. This paper aims to use critical realism to introduce more coherence into
D. Eriksson, Annika Engström
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Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research

, 2021
Critical realism, a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend, clarify and validate their work. Critical realism resolves problems and contradictions between quantitative factual research and qualitative interpretive approaches. It draws on
P. Alderson
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An examination of the practice of chemistry through the lens of critical realism

Journal of Critical Realism, 2022
In this paper, the practice of chemistry is viewed in terms of the interaction of three elements – the physical world (at the molecular level), the conceptual world (the canon of chemistry) and the social world (the community of chemists).
M. Blackie
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Critical realism: one of the main theoretical orientations of the social sciences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Journal of Critical Realism, 2021
This paper argues that critical realism is one of the main theoretical orientations of the social sciences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Critical realism aims to study the transcendental conditions of cognition, and it assumes that reality
Monika Bukowska
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When critical realism was ‘new' and what came after: an interview with William Outhwaite

Journal of Critical Realism
William Outhwaite is well-known as an early proponent of critical realism and for his work on European politics, critical theory and on Jürgen Habermas.
William Outhwaite, Jamie Morgan
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Critical realism and constructivism: merging research paradigms for a deeper qualitative study

Qualitative research in organization and management, 2020
PurposeTraditional approaches in qualitative research have adopted one research paradigm linked to an established typology. This paper addresses the unconventional application of two research paradigms in one study.
Frank Bogna, A. Raineri, Geoff Dell
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Recent Advances and Opportunities for Improving Critical Realism-Based Case Study Research in IS

Journal of the AIS, 2020
Critical realism (CR) has been proposed as an alternative to positivist and interpretivist research in information systems. In recent years, there have been several articles that describe methodological guidelines for conducting CR-based empirical ...
D. Wynn, Clay K. Williams
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