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Developing our Knowledge for Complex Times: The Contribution of Critical Realism to Coaching

open access: yesInternational Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 2023
This conceptual article aims to stimulate reflection and debate on the contribution of the philosophy of science to coaching, an area which remains under-represented in the literature. Specifically, critical realism, evolved from the original work of Roy
Sarah Corrie, Louise Kovacs
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Pragmatism, critical realism and the study of value

open access: yesJournal of Critical Realism, 2022
This paper examines the relationship between pragmatism and critical realism, first as alternative philosophies for the social sciences in general, and second, as an illustration, in the social study of monetary valuation.
Dave Elder-Vass
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Implications for the Purpose of Scholarship in Social Science in Light of Critical Realism [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2017
The aim of this description-inductive study, is to draw forth implications for the purposes of scholarship in the social science based on critical realism with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies.
A. Zarei Dehbaghi   +3 more
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Critical realism: an explanatory framework for small-scale qualitative studies or an ‘unhelpful edifice’?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
This paper describes how critical realism was operationalized to provide an explanatory framework for a small-scale qualitative study in the field of teacher education in a sub-Saharan African context.
K. Stutchbury
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Critical realism, community psychology, and the curious case of autism: A philosophy and practice of science with social justice in mind.

open access: yesJournal of Community Psychology, 2021
Community psychology (CP) is a transformative subdiscipline of psychology which aims to address inequality and social injustice and to attend to wellbeing. It has been argued that CP lacks an underpinning philosophy of science.
M. Botha
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Research Methodology of Critical Realism: Theoretical Foundations, Process and Implementation [PDF]

open access: yesروش شناسی علوم انسانی, 2020
Criticisms of the dominant paradigms of the science, especially the positivism and the interpretive paradigms, have intensified efforts to find alternative paradigms. One of the paradigms that has emerged in this regard is critical realism. This paradigm
Neda Ehsani Moghadam   +3 more
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Dialectical critical realism, transformative change and social work

open access: yesCritical and radical social work An international journal, 2022
Critical realism, as expounded by Bhaskar, is a philosophy of social science that has been applied in social work scholarship addressing such areas as research methodology, practice interventions and programme evaluation.
S. Houston
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Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research: A Critical Realist Perspective

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2006
Different methodological tendencies within the field of disability research are described, and the reductionism implicit in the historically dominant models is critiqued.
Roy Bhaskar, Berth Danermark
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Political ecology and ontology: Is literal critical realism the answer? A response to Knudsen

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2023
In a recent article in this journal, Ståle Knudsen argues that the recent trend to flat ontology in political ecology is mistaken, and urges more engagement with critical realism as introduced by Roy Bhaskar.
Tim Forsyth
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Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism

open access: yesCritica Sociologica, 2021
This article proposes postcolonial critical realism (PCR) as an ontological framework that explains the structuring relationship between racialized, colonial discourses and the social world.
M. Tinsley
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