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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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Suat Dervis, una figura di soglia

open access: yesLea, 2023
Suat Derviş (1905-72), who began collaborating with a newspaper at the age of sixteen and published the first gothic story in Turkish literature, is a representative figure of the changes that occurred during the transition from empire to nation.
Ayse Saracgil
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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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Media Exposure and Third-Person Perception: The Mediating Role of Social Realism and Proxy Efficacy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2021
This study examines the influences of media exposure, social realism, and proxy efficacy on the perceived effects of news about the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data collected from a sample of 1,190 college students in China, this study found that exposure ...
Xudong Liu   +5 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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Against Social Kind Anti-Realism

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2020
The view that social kinds (e.g., money, migrant, marriage) are mind-dependent is a prominent one in the social ontology literature. However, in addition to the claim that social kinds are mind-dependent, it is often asserted that social kinds are not ...
Rebecca Mason
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“Platonismo sociale”? In difesa del realismo fenomenologico in ontologia sociale

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2012
In my paper, I will address two issues on the characterisation of social objects as subject-dependent objects: (i) Does phenomenological realism imply Platonism in social ontology?
Francesca De Vecchi
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Can we make true statements about the world through videogames? An indirect realist account of Alexander Galloway’s notion of social realism in gaming

open access: yesIntexto, 2021
In recent years, game-related scholars have claimed that the study of videogames can reveal important insights for understanding and challenging the concept of realism advocated by previous theories of visual culture.
Francisco Ricardo Bezerra Fonsêca   +1 more
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Influencing factors of air-quality perception in China: What is constructed? What is hidden?

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
China is known to be widely concerned about the air quality of its major cities. Nevertheless, the factors that influence air-quality perception (AQP) are still a matter of discussion.
Xiangming Zeng, Gengjiao Yang
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Documenti e intenzioni. La documentalità nel dibattito contemporaneo sull’ontologia sociale

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2009
What is the ontological status of the “objects” we find in the social realm, such as Universities, marriages, fines, meetings, and the like? In this paper I present three alternative answers to this question.
Giuliano Torrengo
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