Critical realism, dialectics, and qualitative research methods
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This article explored the relationship between critical realism and qualitative research methods and demonstrated how dialectical critical realism can begin to provide answers to three common criticisms made against original critical realist methodology: that the qualitative theory of causal powers and structures developed by critical realists is problematic; that critical realism contains values which prove damaging to empirical research; and that critical realism often has difficulties in researching everyday qualitative dilemmas that people face in their daily lives.Abstract:
Critical realism has been an important advance in social science methodology because it develops a qualitative theory of causality which avoids some of the pitfalls of empiricist theories of causality. But while there has been ample work exploring the relationship between critical realism and qualitative research methods there has been noticeably less work exploring the relationship between dialectical critical realism and qualitative research methods. This seems strange especially since the founder of the philosophy of critical realism, Roy Bhaskar, employs and develops a range of dialectical concepts in his later work in order to extend the main tenets of critical realism. The aim of this paper is to draw on Bhaskar's later work, as well as Marxism, to reorient a critical realist methodology towards a dialectical approach for qualitative research. In particular, the paper demonstrates how dialectical critical realism can begin to provide answers to three common criticisms made against original critical realist methodology: that the qualitative theory of causal powers and structures developed by critical realists is problematic; that critical realist methodology contains values which prove damaging to empirical research; and that critical realists often have difficulties in researching everyday qualitative dilemmas that people face in their daily lives.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Bringing critical realism to nursing practice: Roy Bhaskar's contribution.
TL;DR: Insight is provided into Bhaskar's work and it is demonstrated how research positioned within critical realism and realist methodology can advance nursing and healthcare-related knowledge.
DissertationDOI
The Winds of change in Africa-China relations? Contextualising African agency in Ethiopia-China Engagement in Wind energy Infrastructure Financing and Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the drivers and motivations that contributed to both Ethiopian and Chinese actors to finance and develop the Adama wind farms and examine the engagement outcomes and local development impacts of the wind farms.
Journal ArticleDOI
Exploring the drivers behind experience accumulation – The role of secondary experiences consumed through the eyes of social media influencers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide insights into the dimensions of an experienced tourist by treating the level of experience as an outcome rather than as an antecedent and giving a voice to the overlooked supply-side of tourism.
Journal ArticleDOI
Perceptions of receiving behaviour change interventions from GPs during routine consultations: A qualitative study
Chris Keyworth,Tracy Epton,Joanna Goldthorpe,Rachel Calam,Christopher J. Armitage,Christopher J. Armitage +5 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that most patients were positive about, and were willing to accept behaviour change interventions from their GP during a routine consultation, and the doctor-patient relationship provided an effective platform to discuss behaviour change, with the GP perceived as an appropriate and important healthcare professional from whom to receive advice.
References
More filters
Book
The Interpretation of Cultures
Richard Fenn,Clifford Geertz +1 more
TL;DR: The INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ Books files are available at the online library of the University of Southern California as mentioned in this paper, where they can be used to find any kind of Books for reading.
Competing paradigms in qualitative research.
Egon G. Guba,Yvonna S. Lincoln +1 more
TL;DR: This is also one of the factors by obtaining the soft documents of this competing paradigms in qualitative research by online as discussed by the authors. But, it will totally squander the time.
Book
Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement
TL;DR: The second edition of Dr Bram Oppenheim's established work, like the first, is a practical teaching text of survey methods as mentioned in this paper, which includes interviewing (both clip-board and depth interviewing), sampling and research design, data analysis, and a special chapter on pilot work.
MonographDOI
Realist social theory : the morphogenetic approach
TL;DR: The Morphogenetic Cycle: the basis of the morphogenetic approach 7. Structural and cultural conditioning 8. The morphogenesis of agency 9. Social elaboration.
Book
A realist theory of science
TL;DR: In this article, Roy Bhaskar sets out to revindicate ontology, critiquing the reduction of being in favor of knowledge, which he calls the "epistemic fallacy".