Realist Methodology

Wendy Olsen is Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, Institute for Development Policy & Management and Cathie Marsh Centre for Census & Survey Research.

VOLUME 1: PRACTICAL REALIST ONTOLOGY For Structure: Its reality, properties and powers: a reply to Anthony King - Margaret S. Archer Consequences of Realism for Sociological Theory-Building - Thomas Brante Complexity, Configuration and Cases - David Byrne For Emergence: Refining Archer's account of social structure - Dave Elder-Vass Causal Explanation of Social-Action: The contribution of Weber, Marx and of critical realism to a generative view of causal explanation in social science - Mats Ekstroem Global Capitalism and Critical Awareness of Language - Norman Fairclough Causal Laws, Functional Relations and Tendencies - Steve Fleetwood Ontology in Organization and Management Studies: A critical realist perspective - Steve Fleetwood For Structure: A critique of ontological individualism - Martha Gimenez Feminism, Realism, and Universalism - Tony Lawson Beyond Empiricism? The promise of realism - Derek Layder Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and Beyond - Andrew Sayer Commitment and Investigation in Knowing the Social World - Malcolm Williams and Tim May Situated Objectivity - Malcolm Williams Can Scientists Be Objective? - Malcolm Williams VOLUME 2: REALIST METHODS Structured Pluralism - Sheila Dow Critical Realism, Empirical Methods and Inference: A critical discussion - Paul Downward, John H. Finch and John Ramsay Retroduction as Mixed-Methods Triangulation in Economic Research: Reorienting Economics into Social Science - Paul Downward and Andrew Mearman Intertextuality in Critical Discourse Analysis - Norman Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The universities - Norman Fairclough Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research - Bent Flyvbjerg Reclaiming Habit for Institutional Economics - Geoffrey M. Hodgson On Positive Readings of Realism and Foucault - Jonathan Joseph Realism, Regularity and Social Explanation - Stephen Kemp and John Holmwood Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundation of Post Keynesian Economics - Frederic Lee Critical Realism: A way forward for evaluation research in nursing? - Phil McEvoy and David Richards Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint - Caroline New Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Sciences: A critical realist view - Amit Ron The Spiritual Turn in Critical Realism - Douglas V. Porpora A Critical Realist Rationale for Using a Combination of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods - G. Rolfe Critical Realism and Realist Research in Human Geography: A method or a philosophy in search of a method? - Henry Wai-chung Yeung VOLUME 3: REALIST EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Sociology for One World: Unity and diversity - Margaret S. Archer The Myth of Cultural Integration - Margaret S. Archer Making Time for Change: On temporal conceptualizations within (critical realist) approaches to the relationship between structure and agency - Stephen R. Bates Language, Structure, and Agency: What can realist social theory offer to sociolinguistics? - Bob Carter and Alison Sealey A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Farmers' Suicides in Andhra Pradesh, India - Namrata Chindarkar A Realistic Theory of Health Sector Management: The case for critical realism - Jim Connelly Critical Realism and Health Promotion: Effective practice needs an effective theory - Jim Connelly Between Constructionism and Neuroscience: The societal co-constitution of embodied subjectivity - John Cromby Longitudinal Case Research: A critical realist perspective - Phillip J. Dobson The Philosophy of Critical Realism: An opportunity for information systems research - Phillip J. Dobson A Method for Investigating Practitioner Use of Theory in Practice - Jerry Floersch Embracing a Human Political Economy: A critique of 'abstraction' within studies of the ACP-EU Cotonou partnership agreement - Mark Langan A Realist Perspective on Contemporary Economic Theory - Tony Lawson Abstraction, Tendencies and Stylised Facts: A realist approach to economic analysis - Tony Lawson Globalization: Beyond the ultra-modernist narrative to a critical realist perspective on geopolitics in the cyber age - Christopher Lloyd Empire Inhuman? The social ontology of global theory - Jamie Morgan Pluralism, Poverty and Sharecropping: Cultivating open-mindedness in development studies - Wendy Olsen Realist Ontology For Futures Studies - Heikki Patomaeki Critical Realist Ethnography: The case of racism and professionalism in a medical setting - Sam Porter Turning the Tables: How case-oriented methods challenge variable oriented methods - Charles C. Ragin Toward a Theory of Social Practices: A development in culturalist theorizing - Andreas Reckwitz Realisms through Thick and Thin - Andrew Sayer Critical Realism and Empirical Research Methods in Education - David Scott Objectivity and Emancipation in Learning Disabilities: Holism from the perspective of critical realism - Michael M. Warner Is Anybody There? Critical realism, chronic illness and the disability debate - Simon J Williams VOLUME 4: KNOWLEDGE AND META-KNOWLEDGE IN REALISM The Textual Disembodiment of Knowledge in Research Account Writing - Judith Aldridge Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of organizations through discourse analysis - Mats Alvesson and Dan Karreman Odd Couple: Making sense of the curious concept of knowledge management - Mats Alvesson and Dan Karreman Beyond Neopositivists, Romantics, and Localists: A reflexive approach to interviews in organizational research - Mats Alvesson On the Ontological Status of Ideas - Roy Bhaskar Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research: A critical realist perspective - Roy Bhaskar and Berth Danermark Situated Knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective - Donna Haraway Representing Reality: The critical realism project - Sandra Harding Levels of Reality - John Heil A Realist Theory of Empirical Testing: Resolving the theory-ladenness / objectivity debate - Shelby Hunt Once More, With Feeling: Feminist economics and the ontological question - Julie Nelson Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint - Caroline New A Critical Epistemology of Analytical Statistics: Addressing the sceptical realist - Wendy Olsen and Jamie Morgan Realist Social Theorising and the Emergence of State Educational Systems - Tone Skinningsrud Against Epistemological Chasms: The science question in feminism revisited - Sylvia Walby