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Structural Inquiry, Human Agency and the Contribution of Harre and Bhaskar: A Case Study of Wright's “Classes”
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In this article, the authors examine the contribution of aspects of critical and referential realism to the "logic" of structural explanation through an analysis of Erik Olin Wright's Classes and the debate surrounding this work.Abstract:
This paper examines the contribution of aspects of critical and referential realism to the “logic” of structural explanation through an analysis of Erik Olin Wright’s Classes and the debate surrounding this work. Wright’s Classes has been selected as a case study because it offers an opportunity to examine issues pertaining to “objective” and “subjective” determinations of class and related
questions of agency and structure at the level of actual methodological strategies. A close examination of the structure of Wright’s inquiry reveals a number of places where Harre’s and Bhaskar’s approaches may contribute to
the prescription of methodological strategies which could overcome some of the antinomies on which the debate on Classes is based. As a case study, the paper underlines the important “underlabourer” role of critical and referential
realism and their contribution to questions of agency and structure in the context of actual stages involved in structural explanationread more
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