Realism and Social Science

Outhwaite, William

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“…Critical realism does not legitimate or license any particular substantive theoretical perspective or body of social theorizing. But it is incompatible with approaches based on the assumption that ‘discourse makes the world’ or that material conditions and social relations have no ontological status or explanatory relevance unless and until they are discursively constituted (Outhwaite, 1998).…”

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“…However, contra‐postmodernism, this does not entail that, because they are necessarily human constructions, scientific theories and the knowledge that they produce cannot be systematically assessed and evaluated. Thus, critical realists insist that it is possible, indeed necessary, to assess competing scientific theories and explanations in relation to the comparative explanatory power of the descriptions and accounts that they provide of the underlying structures and mechanisms that generate observable patterns of events and outcomes (Bhaskar, 1978; Outhwaite, 1998).…”

Section: The (Critical) Realist Turnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reflections on the ‘Realist Turn’ in Organization and Management Studies

Reed¹

2005

J Management Studies

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This paper has three objectives. First, to provide an exposition of the 'realist turn' in contemporary organization and management studies. Second, to assess the detailed implications of this incipient 'realist turn' for the underlying explanatory principles and practices that should inform organization and management studies as a social scientific field. Third, to evaluate the potential, longer-term, impact of these explanatory principles and practices in an intellectual context where anti-realist ontologies and epistemologies have been dominant. This will entail a critique of contemporary approaches that draw on a social constructionist ontology and a postmodernist epistemology. Overall, the paper concludes that the 'realist turn' creates a significant intellectual opportunity and space in which the historical sociology of dynamic organizational forms and managerial control regimes can be rediscovered and renewed. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2005.

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confidence: 99%

Section: The (Critical) Realist Turnmentioning

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Reflections on the ‘Realist Turn’ in Organization and Management Studies

Reed¹

2005

J Management Studies

218

166

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“…Moreover, critical realism places causality at the center of social scientific inquiry and research of any kind, but it proposes a far more different and elaborate notion of causality from that of positivism. It is a notion of causality as generative and of causal powers as emergent from the relational makeup of social entities (Sayer 1992;Outhwaite 1998;Elder-Vass 2010, 2012. Thus, for critical realism, the social world is viewed as stratified and emergent, and phenomena and social processes are produced through the constant interaction between human, individual and collective agency and action, social material structures and ideational discursive formations.…”

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Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Migration Research: Self-Reflexivity, Objectivity and Subjectivity

Iosifides

2018

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…The domain of the real is distinct and greater than the empirical domain. However, the empirical is in a ‘contingent relation’ to the domains of the actual and the real (Outhwaite, 1998).…”

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Critical realism: a philosophical framework for the study of gender and mental health

Bergin¹,

Wells

Owen

2008

Nursing Philosophy

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This paper explores gender and mental health with particular reference to the emerging philosophical field of critical realism. This philosophy suggests a shared ontology and epistemology for the natural and social sciences. Until recently, most of the debate surrounding gender and mental health has been guided either implicitly or explicitly within a positivist or constructivist philosophy. With this in mind, key areas of critical realism are explored in relation to gender and mental health, and contrasted with the positions of positivism and constructivism. It is argued that critical realism offers an alternative philosophical framework for the exploration of gender issues within mental health care.

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Realism and Social Science

Cited by 16 publications

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Reflections on the ‘Realist Turn’ in Organization and Management Studies

Reflections on the ‘Realist Turn’ in Organization and Management Studies

Epistemological Issues in Qualitative Migration Research: Self-Reflexivity, Objectivity and Subjectivity

Critical realism: a philosophical framework for the study of gender and mental health

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