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Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions) 1st Edition

by Berth Danermark (Author), Mats Ekstrom (Author), Liselotte Jakobsen (Author),

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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.

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0415221838
ISBN-13

978-0415221832
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1st
Publisher

Routledge
Publication date

December 29, 2001
Language

English
Dimensions

6.14 x 0.53 x 9.21 inches
Print length

232 pages
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'Final year undergraduates, research students and researchers seeking an alternative to positivism or relativism are likely to find Explaining Society useful, as the authors are active researchers themselves and are alive to the kinds of questions their audience are likely to ask ... the authors write clearly and do not make the common mistake of purporting to write for students and researchers while actually writing over their heads for fellow philosophers.' - Journal of Critical Realism 1:1 Nov 2002

About the Author

Berth Danermark is Professor of Sociology in the department of Social Science, and of Caring Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden. Mats Ekström is Professor in Sociology in the Communication and Media Studies department, University of Örebro, Sweden. Liselotte Jakobsen is Senior Researcher at Karlstad University. Jan Ch. Karlsson is Professor of Sociology, in Working Life Science, Karlstad University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (December 29, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415221838
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415221832
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.53 x 9.21 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,243,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #6,827 in Sociology (Books)

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I love to read it again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 20, 2016

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This book is a comprehensive source that after you read it, you are able to understand what the CR philosophy is and how various CR methods can be utilized. I love to read it again.

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A great introduction to CR

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Danermark et al.'s guide to critical realism is excellent for students at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The authors draw on multiple sources in the field: Bhaskar, Sayer, Collier, Archer, and more. I recommend it to anybody that wants to know the basis of the critical realist paradigm.

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suburban dissident

helpful critical realism handbook

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2011

Explaining Society is geared primarily for those in the social science field and thus makes for a rather hard and technical read. In it, the philosophical framework (or, in social science jargon, the meta-theory) of critical realism is introduced and then helpfully explained. The book then spends a few chapters showing how critical realist thinking can be applied to on the ground social scientific research.

Critical realism is slowly becoming an important meta-theoretical framework (particularly in Sociology) with scholars such as Phil Gorski, Christian Smith, and Margaret Archer as leading proponents. That said, this is the most accessible introduction to the topic and its usefulness. If you are in the discipline, it is certainly worth reading and probably worth owning. If you aren't, this would only be for the most adventurous. If you are just philosophically minded and want to know more about critical realism, you are better off just heading straight for Roy Bhaskars' works (or Christian Smith's 2010 release).

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Critical realism is important ontology in my research

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This book gives help for research design. What is retroductive and abductive reasoning? This book informs how to do reasearch according to critical realist principles.

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