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| Author | : Alderson, Priscilla |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-02-11 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1447354559 |
Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism.
| Author | : Alderson, Priscilla |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-02-11 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1447354567 |
Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations. This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism.
| Author | : Anastasia Marinopoulou |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2017-06-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1526105381 |
This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann’s systems theory, the book examines how each approaches epistemology. It opens by looking at twentieth-century epistemology, particularly the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt). It then moves on to discuss structuralism, poststructuralism, critical realism, the epistemological problematics of Foucault’s writings and the dialectics of systems theory. The aim is to explore whether the focal point for epistemology and the sciences remain that social and political interests actually form a concrete point of concern for the sciences as well.
| Author | : Roy Bhaskar |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2016-07-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134867956 |
Since the 1970s, critical realism has grown to address a range of subjects, including economics, philosophy, science, and religion. It has become a complex and mature philosophy. Enlightened Common Sense: The Philosophy of Critical Realism looks back over this development in one concise and accessible volume. The late Roy Bhaskar was critical realism’s philosophical originator and chief exponent. He draws on a lifetime’s experience to give a definitive, systematic account of this increasingly influential, international and multidisciplinary approach. Critical realism’s key element has always been its vindication and deepening of our understanding of ontology. Arguing that realist ontology is inexorable in knowledge and action, Bhaskar sees this as the key to a new enlightened common sense. From the definition of critical realism and its applicability in the social sciences, to explanation of dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality, this is the essential introduction for students of critical realism.
| Author | : David Byrne |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2011-02-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1847424503 |
This important book examines how social science is applied now and how it might be applied in the future in relation to social transformation in a time of crisis.
| Author | : Prasenjit Duara |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2014-03-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0470658991 |
A COMPANION TO GLOBAL HISTORICAL THOUGHT A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, directly addressing issues of historiography in a globalized context. Questions concerning the global dissemination of historical writing and the relationship between historiography and other ways of representing the past have become important not only in the academic study of history, but also in public arenas in many countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book considers the problem of “the global” – in the multiplicity of traditions of narrating the past; in the global dissemination of modern historical writing; and of “the global” as a concept animating historical imaginations. It explores the different intellectual approaches that have shaped the discipline of history, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization, while illustrating the shifts in thinking about time and the emergence of historical thought. Complementing A Companion to Western Historical Thought, this book places non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of discussion, helping scholars and students alike make sense of the discipline at the start of the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Glasby, Jon |
| Publisher | : Policy Press |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2011-06-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1847429432 |
This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process. It critiques the notion of 'evidence-based practice', suggesting instead a more inclusive idea of 'knowledge-base practice', based in part on the lived experience of service users. It will be of interest to everyone in health and social care policy, practice and research.
| Author | : Joseph A. Maxwell |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0761929231 |
Are cultural and material phenomena equally real? How can one study the relationships between cultural constructions, social behavior and material conditions and draw a valid conclusion from the data? In contrast to interpretive or constructivist positions, realism supports the insights of critical theory in social and educational research regarding the relationships between actors' perspectives and their actual situations, while avoiding the epistemological objectivism associated with positivism and some forms of post- positivist empiricism. This book will explain how readers can use realism to conceptualize and conduct their qualitative study to get results with greater validity.
| Author | : R. Andrew Sayer |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2000-02-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780761961246 |
Realism and Social Science offers an authoritative guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other leading traditions in social science. It is illustrated throughout with relevant and accessible examples.
| Author | : Tom Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2006-12-05 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1134277733 |
Over the last thirty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that the social model theory has reached a dead end. Drawing on a critical realist perspective, Shakespeare promotes a pluralist, engaged and nuanced approach to disability. Key topics discussed include: dichotomies - the dangerous polarizations of medical model versus social model, impairment versus disability and disabled people versus non-disabled people identity - the drawbacks of the disability movement's emphasis on identity politics bioethics in disability - choices at the beginning and end of life and in the field of genetic and stem cell therapies care and social relationships - questions of intimacy and friendship. This stimulating and accessible book challenges orthodoxies in British disability studies, promoting a new conceptualization of disability and fresh research agenda. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and students in disability studies and sociology, as well as professionals, policy makers and activists.
