Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
(Mis)recognition, Social Inequality and Social Justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu
1st Edition
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By Terry Lovell
December 24, 2007
Nancy Fraser’s work provides a theory of justice from multiple perspectives which has created a powerful frame for the analysis of political, moral and pragmatic dilemmas in an era of global capitalism and cultural pluralism. It has been developed through dialogue with key contemporary thinkers, ...
Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research
1st Edition
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By Bob Carter, Caroline New
September 02, 2004
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
1st Edition
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By Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
September 01, 2004
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 ...
Rational Choice Theory: Resisting Colonisation
1st Edition
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By Margaret S. Archer, Jonathan Q. Tritter
January 29, 2001
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
1st Edition
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By Stephen Ackroyd, Steve Fleetwood
January 22, 2001
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 ...
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics
1st Edition
By Christopher Norris
April 26, 2000
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 ...
Critical Realism: Essential Readings
1st Edition
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By Margaret Archer, Roy Bhaskar, Andrew Collier, Tony Lawson, Alan Norrie
October 15, 1998
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 ...