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Why critical realism fails to justify critical social research [PDF]

, 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.
Hammersley, Martyn
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Actors and networks or agents and structures: towards a realist view of information systems [PDF]

, 2007
Actor-network theory (ANT) has achieved a measure of popularity in the analysis of information systems. This paper looks at ANT from the perspective of the social realism of Margaret Archer.
Alistair Mutch, Amsterdamska, O., Baumard, P., Bourdieu, P., Calhoun, C., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Callinicos, A., Checkland, P., Ciborra, C., Collier, A., Collins, H.M., Currie, W., Dahlbom, B., Dennett, D.C., Edelman, G.M., Fowler, B., Fuller, S., Grint, K., Jones, M., Lakoff, G., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Latour, B., Law, J., Law, J., Mutch, A., Norris, C., O'Brien, F., Roberts, R.H., Rose, H., Rose, H., Rose, S., Sayer, A., Searle, J.R., Singer, P., Sokal, A., Sokal, A.D., Walsham, G., Watson, T., Whitelegg, J., Whitley, R., Wilde, O.   +43 more
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The Colour of Social Realism

Journal of British Cinema and Television, 2018
During the 1960s Eastmancolor, a relatively cheap, widely available film stock, revolutionised the British film industry's approach to colour. This article discusses the consequences of this major representational and aesthetic shift on social realism, a
S. Street
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Theoretical Procedures and Elder-Vass's Critical Realist Ontology [PDF]

, 2012
This article scrutinizes some theoretical procedures prevalent in the philosophy of social science. These procedures are exemplified in Elder-Vass’s critical realism, which promises to place the social sciences on a sound ontological footing. The article
Archer M., Austin J. L., Bhaskar R., Bhaskar R., Garfinkel H., Harré R., Lawson T., Wittgenstein L.   +7 more
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What Does Social Realism Have to Offer for Research on Teacher Identity in Mathematics Education?

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Research that focuses on teacher identity is gaining traction as researchers argue that teachers mediate more than mathematical knowledge and skills in the classroom.
Lise Westaway, G. Kaiser, Mellony Graven
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The limits of process: On (re)reading Henri Bergson [PDF]

, 2016
This article offers a reading of the work of Henri Bergson as it pertains to organizations through the lens of ideas drawn from critical realism.
Alistair Mutch, Bergson H., Bergson H., Bergson H., Bhaskar R., Bhaskar R., Damasio A., Elias N., Ford F. M., Ghosh P., Linstead S., Lipartito K., Mutch A., Pearce F., Rose H., Rose S., Sayer A., Whittington R.   +17 more
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Social Ontology and Immanent Realism

Phenomenology and Mind, 2016
What are the intentional objects of groups’ beliefs? This paper claims that they are immanent facts, i.e., facts which exist only within groups’ minds. Since in relevant literature the notion of immanent object and the related theory of “immanent realism”
Alessandro Salice
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A Holistic Social Constructionist perspective to Enterprise Education [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose – Drawing on the Gestalt approach this article proposes a holistic framework for enterprise education (EE) research based on Social Constructionism, illustrating how the latter supports research into experiential learning in EE in 7 UK Higher ...
Deema Refai, Dr David Higgins, Professor Kiran Treh, John Thompson, Rita G. Klapper   +3 more
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Moderators of Social Facilitation Effect in Virtual Reality: Co-presence and Realism of Virtual Agents

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Social facilitation has been researched for decades, but in the face of the development of virtual reality technology, new questions arise regarding the possibility of its occurrence in this environment —in the presence of computer-generated agents. Past
P. Strojny, Natalia Dużmańska-Misiarczyk, Natalia Lipp, A. Strojny   +3 more
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]

, 2000
Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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