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Critical Realism
Essential Readings
Av Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
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Critical realism is a movement in philosophy and the human sciences most closely associated with the work of Roy Bhaskar. Since the publication of Bhaskars A Realist Theory of Science, critical realism has had a profound influence on a wide range of subjects. This reader makes accessible, in one …
Structure, Culture and Agency
Selected Papers of Margaret Archer
Av Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
698 kr
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Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of …
Critical Realism, Environmental Learning and Social-Ecological Change
Av Leigh Price, Heila Lotz-Sistka
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Southern Africa, where most of these book chapters originate, has been identified as one of regions of the world most at risk of the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change. At the same time, it is still seeking ways to overcome the century long ravages of colonial and …
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism
Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
Häftad, 2000
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This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major infulence on postmodernism, and presents …
Rational Choice Theory
Resisting Colonisation
Av Margaret S. Archer, Jonathan Q. Tritter
Häftad, 2000
825 kr
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Rational Choice Theory is flourishing in sociology and is increasingly influential in other disciplines. Contributors to this volume are convinced that it provides an inadequate conceptualization of all aspects of decision making: of the individuals who make the decisions, of the process by which …
Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisations
Av Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
Inbunden, 2000
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Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management. It pulls together a wide range of …
Realist Perspectives on Management and Organisations
Av Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
Häftad, 2000
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Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management. It pulls together a wide range of …
Making Realism Work
Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research
Inbunden, 2004
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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 …
Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies
Av Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
Inbunden, 2004
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Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is studied. This innovative book argues for an alternative to the prevailing ontology, and shows how positivism and its empirical realist ontology can be abandoned without having to accept strong social …
Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies
Av Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
Häftad, 2004
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Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is studied. This innovative book argues for an alternative to the prevailing ontology, and shows how positivism and its empirical realist ontology can be abandoned without having to accept strong social …
Making Realism Work
Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research
Häftad, 2004
921 kr
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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 …
Critical Realism and Housing Research
Av Julie Lawson
Inbunden, 2006
2512 kr
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Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and …
Formation of Critical Realism
A Personal Perspective
Av Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig
Inbunden, 2010
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This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.Three intersecting and interweaving narratives unfold in the course of this unfinished story: the personal narrative of …
Formation of Critical Realism
A Personal Perspective
Av Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig
Häftad, 2010
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This series of interviews, conducted in the form of exchanges between Roy Bhaskar and Mervyn Hartwig, tells a riveting story of the formation and development of critical realism.Three intersecting and interweaving narratives unfold in the course of this unfinished story: the personal narrative of …
Political Economy of European Social Democracy
A Critical Realist Approach
Inbunden, 2009
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This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’ …
Science For Humanism
The Recovery of Human Agency
Inbunden, 2009
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In the 18th century, the pre-modern Judeo-Greco-Christian problem of freedom and determinism is transformed by Kant into the modern problem of the freedom of human agency in the natural and cultural worlds of deterministic structures; it is this version of the freedom and determinism issue which …
Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries
Inbunden, 2011
2512 kr
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Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks …
Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy
A Confluence of Ideas
Av John Mingers
Inbunden, 2014
2705 kr
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Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas seeks to re-address the whole question of philosophy and systems thinking for the twenty first century and provide a new work that would be of value to both systems and philosophy. This is a highly opportune time when …
Relational Sociology
A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
Häftad, 2012
793 kr
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‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational …
Realist Theory of Art History
Inbunden, 2012
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As the theoretical alignments within academia shift, this book introduces a surprising variety of realism to abolish the old positivist-theory dichotomy that has haunted Art History. Demanding frankly the referential detachment of the objects under study, the book proposes a stratified, …
Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking
A Marxian-Aristotelian Linguistic Account
Av Kathryn Dean
Inbunden, 2014
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Capitalism, Citizenship and the Arts of Thinking proposes a historical materialist ethic of human flourishing understood in terms of the practice of citizenship. It focuses on the ways in which capitalism’s necessary mode of thinking – analytical thinking – impedes the nurturing of capabilities for …
Conversations About Reflexivity
Inbunden, 2009
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" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully …
Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice
Av Alan Norrie
Inbunden, 2009
2736 kr
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Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique of western …
Dialectic and Difference
Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice
Av Alan Norrie
Häftad, 2009
820 kr
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Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar’s dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice. That philosophy has three aims: a dialecticisation of original critical realism, a ‘critical realisation’ of dialectic, and a metacritique of western …
Eurocentrism: a marxian critical realist critique
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of …
Relational Sociology
A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational …
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change
Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future
Av Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of …
Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change
Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future
Av Roy Bhaskar, Cheryl Frank m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
747 kr
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Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change is a major new book addressing one of the most challenging questions of our time. Its unique standpoint is based on the recognition that effective and coherent interdisciplinarity is necessary to deal with the issue of climate change, and the multitude of …
Ontology Revisited
Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy
Av Ruth Groff
Inbunden, 2012
2736 kr
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Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit. Social and political philosophy, she maintains, is not as metaphysically neutral as it may seem. Even the most deontological of theories connects up with an attendant set of philosophical commitments regarding what kinds of …
Enlightened Common Sense
The Philosophy of Critical Realism
Av Roy Bhaskar, Mervyn Hartwig
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
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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 …
