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Critical approaches to literary realism

open access: yesEstudios de Teoría Literaria, 2021
The inquiries regarding the concept of realism tend to result in an attempt to define the ontological statutes that govern the referential plausibility constituted in literary works.
Gerardo Argüelles Fernández   +1 more
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The Study of Critical Realism Implications in Evaluation of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Making [PDF]

open access: yesمدیریت دولتی, 2018
Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify and extract the implications of critical realism for science, technology and innovation policy-making as one of the later research traditions in social sciences.
Peyman Mohammadi   +2 more
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Why Critical Realism Fails to Justify Critical Social Research

open access: yesMethodological Innovations, 2009
Many social scientists have argued that research should be designed to perform a ‘critical’ function, in the sense of challenging the socio-political status quo.
Martyn Hammersley
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Founding transdisciplinary knowledge production in critical realism: implications and benefits [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article explains the implications and benefits of founding transdisciplinary collaborations of knowledge production in critical realism. We call such equal partnerships of researchers and practitioners knowledge alliances. Drawing on the distinction
Stigendal, Mikael,   +3 more
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Empirical realism and the legitimacy of ontology: A dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this dialogue between an ‘empirical realist’ and a ‘traditional ontologist’ is to clarify and evaluate the presuppositions of the kind of antiontological position exemplified by empirical realism.
McWherter, Dustin
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Reclaiming Rational Theory Choice as Central: A Critique of Methodological Applications of Critical Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
My central claim is that texts introducing and explaining critical realism focus on its ontological insights, and even though issues of judgemental rationality and theory choice are central to research these often become peripheral and/or are not stated ...
Isaksen, Robert
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On the Relationship of Ian Barbour's and Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
‘Critical realism’ is to some extent an equivocal term, although its ambiguity has rarely been noticed. The reason for this ambiguity is that the term has constantly been reinvented.
Losch, Andreas
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М. Gorky as a Theoretician of Literature [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2018
The essay focuses on the theoretical problem of M. Gorky’s artistic method claiming that Gorky’s work combines elements of realism, Romanticism, and modernism. Already at the beginning of his career, he realized that critical realism was in crisis as his
Olga A. Ovcharenko
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A Congregational Study on Mission Readiness: Toward a practical ecclesiology of practical action

open access: yesEcclesial Futures, 2023
The case study investigates mission readiness as a form of church mobilization involving participants and the investigator constructing a framework of ministry practices for analysis.
Mark Harden
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Helping Business Schools Engage with Real Problems: The Contribution of Critical Realism and Systems Thinking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The world faces major problems, not least climate change and the financial crisis, and business schools have been criticised for their failure to help address these issues and, in the case of the financial meltdown, for being causally implicated in it ...
Mingers, John
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