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Social Constructionism and Realism
Theory & Psychology, 1992Greenwood's (1992) views are criticized from a social constructionist's point of view. It is argued that constructionism, because of its radical reflexivity, confronts itself with problems not faced by realism. Although it is true that constructionists do not treat talk as referring to an extra-linguistic reality `outside' of our conversational ...
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Two faces of social-psychological realism
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017AbstractThis commentary places Jussim (2012) in dialogue with sociological perspectives on social reality and the political-academic nature of scientific paradigms. Specifically, we highlight how institutions, observers, and what is being observed intersect, and discuss the implications of this intersection on measurement within the social world.
Nicholas Hoover, Wilson, Julie Y, Huang
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Vocabularies of realism in professional socialization
Social Science & Medicine (1967), 1973IN OUR research on professional socialization, we have often been tempted to define professional socialization as “the decline of idiosyncracy”, a view which comes very close to that of Norman Ryder [ I]. The referents for that facetious definition were repeated observations that, in the course of being socialized into professionals, people do indeed ...
J, Stelling, R, Bucher
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Social Acceptance of Comparative Optimism and Realism
Psychological Reports, 2011Studies of optimism and realism (the accuracy of people's outlook on the future) seek to understand the respective effects of these elements on social approbation. Two experiments examined how comparative optimism (vs pessimism) and realism (vs unrealism) interacted to influence the targets' social acceptance based on their perceptions about the ...
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Social Realism and Social/Cultural Morphogenesis
2021Drawing from the work conducted in Chapter Three on the development of social theory and its relation to AL research, this Chapter presents realism as (a) a robust ontological perspective, (b) an emergentist social ontology providing solid conceptual grounds for a laminated or stratified view of social realities, and (c) facilitating accounts of the ...
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What are the implications of the approach outlined in the previous chapter for the practice of social research? We can begin to answer this question by reviewing some of the realist principles which have already been mentioned. In the sphere of ontology, we have: 1.
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What are the implications of the approach outlined in the previous chapter for the practice of social research? We can begin to answer this question by reviewing some of the realist principles which have already been mentioned. In the sphere of ontology, we have: 1.
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Emergentism and Social Realism
2013The period of Third Way modernizing governance under the Fifth New Zealand Labor government (Benade, 2012) was characterized by the search to address imbalances created by neoliberal reform.
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Theorizing English-Canadian Social Realism
2015The vexed and vexing question of the overloaded term realism has been addressed to some extent; the specific issues of social realism were not broached. Surely, the latter stems from the former. To solve the excessive burden placed on realism, George Becker in Documents of Modern Literary Realism suggested employing other terms to denote new concepts ...
John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
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State Socialization and Structural Realism
Security Studies, 2010One of the common criticisms of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics is that its structural model is rather spare. This paper enriches neorealism by specifying the conditioning effects of competition and socialization operating on behalf of the international structure.
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Realism, Empiricism and Social Constructionism
Theory & Psychology, 1992This article attempts to characterize scientific realism as a viable alternative metatheory for psychological science that is superior to traditional empiricism. It is suggested that scientific realism provides a richer conception of psychological theory than traditional empiricism, and enables the theoretical psychologist to acknowledge the respects ...
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