Routledge Studies in Critical Realism – serie
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Explaining Society
Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Av Berth Danermark, Mats Ekström m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent …
Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society
A Critical Realist Account
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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It is now accepted that many of the determinants of health and health care are social. This volume offers a philosophical and theoretical frame within which the nature and extent of this might be optimally examined. The analysis is rooted in Roy Bhaskar’s basic and dialectical critical realism, …
Explaining Morality
Critical Realism and Moral Questions
Av Steve Ash
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral agency and asking whether we can legitimately argue for a specific moral position and whether moral positions can be understood to apply universally. …
Explaining Morality
Critical Realism and Moral Questions
Av Steve Ash
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Adopting a critical realist approach to morality, this book considers morality as an aspect of social reality, enquiring into the nature of moral agency and asking whether we can legitimately argue for a specific moral position and whether moral positions can be understood to apply universally. …
Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective
Sensus Fidei and Critical Thinking
Av Johnny C. Go
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This book examines the possibility and necessity of critical thinking in religious education through the lenses of critical realism and the Christian doctrine of sensus fidei (‘sense of faith’). Drawing on Bhaskar’s original critical realism and data from a survey of over a thousand teachers in the …
Subject of Human Being
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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The Subject of Human Being presents a sweeping account of the nature of human existence. As a work of philosophical anthropology, the analysis ranges from the basic powers emerging from the mind, to our extraordinary psychological capacities, to the shared sociocultural worlds we inhabit. The book …
Social and Ethnic Inequalities in the Cypriot Education System
A Critical Realist View on Empowerment
Av Areti Stylianou, David Scott
Häftad, 2021
675 kr
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Accommodating the diversity of learners in mainstream schooling and providing high quality education for all, inclusive education is prioritised at international and European levels as a human rights issue and as a reform strategy which tackles inequalities and promotes social cohesion within both …
Critical Realist Theory of Sport
Inbunden, 2022
2144 kr
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This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival concepts of sport, it presents detailed, …
Critical Realist Theory of Sport
Häftad, 2022
622 kr
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This book argues that sport in the era of global or financialised capitalism has undergone a process of fracturing, which requires a re-assessment of longstanding and consensual accounts of traditional-to-modern sporting activity. Considering rival concepts of sport, it presents detailed, …
Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System
Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective
Av Margaret S. Archer, Unn-Doris K. Bæck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2454 kr
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Based in the philosophy of critical realism, this book employs a range of Margaret Archer’s theoretical concepts to investigate temporal and spatial aspects of Norwegian education. Stemming from Archer’s engagement as visiting professor from 2017 to 2019 in the Department of Education at UiT The …
Morphogenesis of the Norwegian Educational System
Emergence and Development from a Critical Realist Perspective
Av Margaret S. Archer, Unn-Doris K. Bæck m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Based in the philosophy of critical realism, this book employs a range of Margaret Archer’s theoretical concepts to investigate temporal and spatial aspects of Norwegian education. Stemming from Archer’s engagement as visiting professor from 2017 to 2019 in the Department of Education at UiT The …
Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art
Av Nick Wilson
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson instead presents a realist case for living …
Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities
A Realist Approach
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer’s theory of identity formation and Christian Coff’s work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account …
Empiricism and the Metatheory of the Social Sciences
Av Roy Bhaskar
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of …
Marxism and Realism
A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences
Av Sean Creaven
Inbunden, 2000
2525 kr
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This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long standing dilemmas in Marxist discourse, such as …
Realism and Sociology
Anti-Foundationalism, Ontology and Social Research
Inbunden, 2002
2525 kr
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In recent years, methodological debates in the social sciences have increasingly focused on issues relating to epistemology. Realism and Sociology makes an original contribution to the debate, charting a middle ground between postmodernism and positivism.Critics often hold that realism tries to …
Hegemony
A Realist Analysis
Inbunden, 2002
2525 kr
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Hegemony: A Realist Analysis is a new and original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of the use of hegemony in a range of work starting with a discussion of Gramsci and Russian Marxism and going on to look at more recent applications. It examines the current …
Education Policy and Realist Social Theory
Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism
Inbunden, 2002
2454 kr
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In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues …
Critical Realism and Composition Theory
Av Donald Judd
Inbunden, 2003
2904 kr
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The field of composition theory has emerged as part of the intellectual turmoil and set of pedagogical debates which have beset higher education for the last four decades and is now revolutionizing the theory and praxis of higher education.This volume examines three of the dominant pedagogical …
Critical Realism
The Difference it Makes
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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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 …
In Defence of Objectivity
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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First Published in 2004. This volume addresses the interlocking themes of realism, objectivity, existentialism and (eco-socialist) politics, based on critical realism. However, it moves beyond the purely scientific orientation of earlier contributions to this philosophy, to further develop the …
On Christian Belief
A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context
Inbunden, 2003
3168 kr
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First Published in 2004. On Christian Belief offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief – with particular reference to Christian belief – is not something unlike any other kind of belief, but is cognitive, making claims about what is real, and is open …
Realism Discourse and Deconstruction
Av Jonathan Joseph, John Michael Roberts
Inbunden, 2003
2525 kr
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Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understanding of the conceptual aspect of social life and the processes by which meaning is produced. This collection reflects the growing interest realist …
Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
Häftad, 2003
1481 kr
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In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of …
Critical Realism, Post-positivism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Av Ruth Groff
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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Groff defends 'realism about causality' through close discussions of Kant, Hilary Putnam, Brian Ellis and Charles Taylor, among others. In so doing she affirms critical realism, but with several important qualifications. In particular, she rejects the theory of truth advanced by Roy Bhaskar. She …
Defending Objectivity
Essays in Honour of Andrew Collier
Av Margaret Archer, William Outhwaite
Inbunden, 2004
2525 kr
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Andrew Collier is the boldest defender of objectivity - in science, knowledge, thought, action, politics, morality and religion. In this tribute and acknowledgement of the influence his work has had on a wide readership, his colleagues show that they have been stimulated by his thinking and offer …
Ontology of Sex
Av Carrie Hull
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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Poststructuralism, particularly through the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, has achieved remarkable success in challenging our belief in natural sex categories and instincts. Here, Carrie Hull endorses the progressive ideals of poststructuralism while demonstrating the superiority of …
Revitalizing Causality
Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science
Av Ruth Groff
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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This cutting edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and …
Explaining Global Poverty
A Critical Realist Approach
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested …
Emergentist Marxism
Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory
Av Sean Creaven
Inbunden, 2007
2759 kr
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In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, …
