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Critical Realism

2003
Justin Cruickshank Introduction Part I: The Self - Method and Ethics 1. Margaret S. Archer The Private Life of the Social Agent: What Difference Does it Make? 2. Nick Hostettler and Alan Norrie Are Critical Realist Ethics Foundationalist? Part II: Social Science and Critique after the Linguistic Turn 3.
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Homelessness and critical realism: a search for richer explanations

, 2020
Homelessness is an increasingly prevalent social problem with devastating consequences. Yet homelessness causality literature is characterised by confusion due to a diversity of homelessness definitions, research approaches, understandings of causality ...
Catherine Hastings
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For emancipation: a Marxist critique of structure within critical realism

, 2020
The authors critique Modell's proposition that critical realism is useful in elucidating and creating possibilities for emancipation.,The authors begin by outlining Modell's conception of enabling structures.
J. Andrew, Max Baker
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A comprehensive framework to research digital innovation: The joint use of the systems of innovation and critical realism

Journal of strategic information systems, 2019
This study addresses calls to expand the boundaries of digital innovation research at multiple levels of society to comprehensively study the structure and evolution of innovation processes and outcomes. We contribute by proposing a framework composed of
A. Vega, M. Chiasson
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Comparing abduction and retroduction in Peircean pragmatism and critical realism

, 2020
Abduction as a method for sociological explanation is increasingly gaining interest, but questions remain as to what exactly it is and how it differs from other methods of inquiry.
Bridget Ritz
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Critical Realism and Concrete Utopias

Journal of Critical Realism, 2019
The role of Concrete Utopias in the works of Roy Bhaskar are contrasted with the ‘Real Utopias’ of Erik Olin Wright. Critical Realism treats them as ‘possibilities’ that are real because realizable.
M. Archer
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Critical Realism

2018
Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences starting from Roy Bhaskar’s writings. It claims that causal laws state the tendencies of things grounded in their structures, not invariable conjunctions, which are rare outside experiments. Therefore, positivist accounts of science are wrong, but so is the refusal to explain the human
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Using critical realism in critical accounting research – a commentary by two ANTs

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2019
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to respond to Modell’s arguments regarding the relative usefulness of critical realist philosophy in relation to actor-network theory.Design/methodology/approachThe authors outline the challenges in applying critical ...
J. Baxter, W. Chua
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Critical Realism

2009
Different strands of non-positivistic research approaches and theories, for example, constructivism, grounded theory, and structuration theory, have gained popularity in the information systems (IS) field. Although, they are managing to overcome some problems with positivism and structural theories they are not completely without problems. This chapter
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The normative foundations of critical realism: a comment on Dave Elder-Vass and Leigh Price

Journal of Critical Realism, 2019
As a comment on the debate between Dave Elder-Vass and Leigh Price, I propose a dialogue between Bhaskar and Habermas. If we could introduce critical realism into critical theory, we might be able to strengthen its critique of positivism.
F. Vandenberghe
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