This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Politics & Social Sciences

Danermark, Berth

Ekström, Mats

Jakobsen, Liselotte

Karlsson, Jan Ch.

Social Sciences

Routledge

A clear introduction to the practice and theory of critical realism in social science. The first book to comprehensively present critical realism and its methodological implications for social science.

Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for practitioners of the different disciplines to communicate without contradiction or compromise, resolving the tensions that beset much interdisciplinary work. Such a general theory is only possible if we assume that there is more to being (ontology) than empirical being (what we can measure directly). Therefore, the unique approach to interdisciplinarity applied in this book starts from ontology, namely that there is a multimechanismicity (a multiplicity of mechanisms) in open systems, and then moves to epistemology. By contrast, the mainstream approach, which fails to acknowledge ontology, is “unserious” and tends to result in a methodological hierarchy, unconducive of interdisciplinarity, in which empiricist science is overtly or tacitly assumed to be the superior version of science. This book is primarily aimed at those people interested in improving health and wellbeing – such as researchers, policy-makers, educators, and general practitioners. However, it will also be useful to academics engaged in the broader academic debate on interdisciplinary metatheory.

Price, Leigh

Bhaskar, Roy.

Philosophy

Explaining Society: An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

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 scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

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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 scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

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Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions)

Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

Explaining Society: An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)