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Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research (Critical Realism: Interventions) by Bob Carter (editor), Caroline New (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research (Critical Realism: Interventions) about?
In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with issues such as causality, probability, and reflexivity in social science. Varied and lively contributions relate central methodological issues to detailed accounts of research projects which adopt a realist framework. Making Realism Work provides an accessible discussion of a significant current in contemporary social science and will be of interest to social theorists and social researchers alike.
Who reads Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research (Critical Realism: Interventions)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bob Carter (editor), Caroline New (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780203624289
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Sociology, Science
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