Critical Hermeneutics, Realism and the Sociological Tradition

Outhwaite, William

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“…At the level of human systems, all systems are open and further complexities need to be added. We have the operation of the 'double hermeneutic', that is, not only do we have to interpret the results of our observations, but our research subjects produce their own readings of the world (Outhwaite, 1987).…”

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Situating Organizational Action: The Relational Sociology of Organizations

2006

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This paper advances a relational sociology of organization that seeks to address concerns over how organizational action is understood and situated. The approach outlined here is one which takes ontology seriously and requires transparency and consistency of position. It aims at causal explanation over description and/or prediction and seeks to avoid pure voluntarism or structural determinism in such explanation. We advocate relational analysis that recognizes and engages with connections within and across organization and with wider contexts. We develop this argument by briefly reviewing three promising approaches: relational pragmatism, the social theorizing of Bourdieu and critical realism, highlighting their ontological foundations, some similarities and differences and surfacing some methodological issues. Our purpose is to encourage analysis that explores the connections within and between perspectives and theoretical positions. We conclude that the development of the field of organization theory will benefit from self conscious and reflexive engagement and debate both within and across our various research positions and traditions only if such debates are conducted on the basis of holistic evaluations and interpretations that recognize (and value) difference.

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“…Similar views upholding a stratified conception of reality have been voiced by the realist research programme, which originated in the philosophy of science and has lately been extended from natural to social sciences (Bhaskar 1979;Outhwaite 1987;Sayer 1992). …”

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Functional explanation in economics: a qualified defence

Jackson¹

2002

Journal of Economic Methodology

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Economists seldom make explicit use of functional explanation, although they sometimes use it implicitly. Functional theorising has lost favour among social scientists in recent years, and few are now willing to adopt functional language. This paper argues that, despite some drawbacks, explicit functional methods have several attractive features, including a pluralistic attitude to causality, an awareness of stratification and emergence, and a compatibility with a realist perspective. Functional methods on their own cannot provide full causal explanations, but they can raise important theoretical issues often neglected in mainstream economics.

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“…Hence, social institutions, made objects, and even nature, are independent in the relevant sense for realism, while in other senses dependent on 'us'. [My analysis here follows (without being directly attributable to) Harreá nd Madden, 1975;Newton-Smith, 1981;Lovibond, 1983;Outhwaite, 1987;Putnam, 1987;Searle, 1995; see also Scanlon, 2009. ] Debates about realism are often couched in global or universal terms, where what is at issue is the philosophical validity of understandings of reality itselfthe point is to vindicate or condemn the philosophical coherence of the category reality, or the predicate real.…”

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What's real in political philosophy?

Frazer

2010

Contemp Polit Theory

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Critical Hermeneutics, Realism and the Sociological Tradition

Cited by 20 publications

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Situating Organizational Action: The Relational Sociology of Organizations

Situating Organizational Action: The Relational Sociology of Organizations

Functional explanation in economics: a qualified defence

What's real in political philosophy?

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