Berth Danermark
Biographic Data
| ID | 331475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Berth Danermark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Berth |
| FAMILY NAME | Danermark |
| SIGNATURE | DANERMARK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Örebro University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2690-6989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Applying critical realism in an interdisciplinary context
In this wide-ranging interview Berth Danermark discusses several things. First, his route into realism via community activism, an interest in the theory and practice of Marx and Engels and the philosophy of Mario Bunge, and inspiration drawn from Herman Hesse. Second, the formation of the Nordic Network for Critical Realism and realism's enduring foothold in Scandinavia. Third, the career trajectory that took him from research on urban planning t…
Critical methodological pluralism – intensive and extensive research design and interdisciplinarity
The concepts intensive and extensive have been used to denote different methodological approaches in social science. The way in which the intensive and extensive procedures relate to qualitative and quantitative methods can be described thus: the intensive empirical procedure contains substantial elements of data collecting and analyses of a qualitative kind. An intensive empirical approach is characterized by focusing on a particular case or jus…
Generalization, scientific inference, and models for explanatory social science
This chapter presents methodological guidelines for a social science based on critical realism. It describes several alternative models for an explanatory social science and focuses on a demonstration of how the different forms of generalizations. The ways in which generalizations are applied and prioritized have significant epistemological and ontological implications. Frames of interpretation and theories are more or less reasonable; they diffe…
Science and reality
This chapter focuses on similarities and differences between the natural and social sciences, and, eventually, arrive at a set of methodological principles for social science analyses. It discusses the most central issue in science: the relation between science and reality and explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the objects of the natural and social sciences. The chapter explains the critical realist understanding of science and…
Theory in the methodology of social science
This chapter aims to clarifying what a theory is, from the perspective of critical realism. It explores the components of theories – concepts and describes different ways of relating theories to data in research practice. The chapter discusses the critical realist view, it is essential to distinguish between the different theoretical languages that exist within social sciences. Social scientific skill in essence is a matter of analysing, developi…
Conceptual abstraction and causality
This chapter analyses the question of how concept formation should be constructed as an efficient social science research tool. Conceptual abstraction by means of structural analysis is the core function of social science conceptualization and from this follows realist causal analysis. Abstraction is necessary, because the domain of the actual – the events in the world – makes up such a tremendously diversified and heterogeneous dimension of real…
Conclusion
This chapter focuses on the following features: the idea of causality and mechanisms, the assumption that reality is stratified, the issue of closed and opens systems, the transitive and the intransitive dimensions of reality, and discusses the hermeneutic conditions of social science. It addresses the question of what the term “critical” in critical realism signifies. By and large, however, the several elements have been brought together in repo…
Social structures and human agency
This chapter presents the importance analytically making a difference between social structures and human action, and to study the interaction between them. Social structures must exist for human actions to be possible and actions must exist for social structures to be possible. In the fact paradigm, the analysis is reduced to objective social structures quite regardless of people’s agency, while the action paradigm reduces the analysis to indivi…
Social science and practice
This chapter discusses the relevance of theoretically motivated research for social practice. It argues that knowledge of structures, mechanisms, and tendencies is highly constructive for good planning. The chapter suggests that in order to make better use of social scientific knowledge than what seems to be the case, there must be a change in the division of labor between scientists and practitioners. It draws on attention to the fact that in so…
Applied interdisciplinary research
This article uses the philosophy of critical realism to overcome the problem that most contemporary guidelines for interdisciplinary research fail to provide would-be researchers with adequate advice. It arrives at five important steps in the interdisciplinary research process: an initial planning phase; a disciplinary phase; a teamwork phase characterized by cross-disciplinary understanding; and a transdisciplinary, creative phase that involves …
Explaining Society
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 retroductio…
Disability and Social Representations Theory
The employer's perspective
The aim of this article is to examine employers' perspectives of the conditions of employment of people with disabilities within a context of wage subsidies. Employers in different workplaces were interviewed, and the interviews were analysed according to qualitative content analysis (Graneheim and Lundman 2004). The results show that four factors – attitude, matching, economic incentives and accommodations – are important for the employment of p…
French and Swedish teachers' social representations of social workers
Collaboration on children at risk is essential, but our knowledge about inter-professional collaboration between social workers and educators is limited. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to describe French and Swedish teachers' social representation of social workers; and (2) to compare these social representations. The French sample group is composed of 77 secondary school teachers (of students from 11 to 18 years old), and the Swedish samp…
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
Derek Pomeroy Brereton, Campsteading
Interagency collaboration in vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental health problems
There is an aspiration and policy within the European Union to fully involve persons with disabilities in the community; this implies an opportunity to gainful employment. A large percentage of disabled persons remain unemployed despite this policy, especially persons with mental health problems. This study aims at investigating how people with mental health problems and caseworkers in different agencies experience the vocational rehabilitation p…
Expectations, visions and sense of empowerment
The aim of this study is to reveal the meaning some people with psychiatric disabilities assigned to important experiences related to long periods of participation restrictions owing to unemployment and sick leave. The data comprise open-ended interviews with eight informants. A hermeneutic approach together with a comparative analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed six types of mechanisms important for the outcome of the rehabi…
Deaf people's employment and workplaces – similarities and differences in comparison with a reference population
This study aims to describe and analyze the characteristics of deaf people in employment and their workplaces in Sweden. A population of 2144 people born 1941–80 who attended a school for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total Swedish population born 1941–80. Data on these persons consisted of registered information from the year 2005. Results showed that there are differences between the workplaces of people …
Social processes of participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia
Toward an Equal Level of Educational Attainment Between Deaf and Hearing People in Sweden
Various educational reforms in Sweden have resulted in a formally equivalent educational system for deaf and hearing pupils. Has this resulted in equal levels of educational attainment? This article compares 2,144 people born between 1941 and 1980 who attended a special education program for the deaf and 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total population born between 1941 and 1980. Data consist of registered information about the indiv…
Normative approaches to justice in physical education for pupils with physical disabilities – dilemmas of recognition and redistribution
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A ‘school for all’ means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of ‘disability’ is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this general educational dilemma using the context of physical education (PE) for pupils with physical disabilities within the compu…
Kritisk realisme , By Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen
(2006). Kritisk realisme, By Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 414-417
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research
Different methodological tendencies within the field of disability research are described, and the reductionism implicit in the historically dominant models is critiqued. The advantages of critical realism over rival metatheoretical positions, including empiricism, social constructionism, neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics, is shown, demonstrating in particular what is called the “double-inclusiveness” of critical realism. A non-reductionist schema …
Explaining Society
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
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 retroductio…
Social justice
The purpose of this article is to present some recent contributions to discussions on social justice and recognition in the context of disability research. Nancy Fraser's theory of redistribution and recognition, and her endeavour to include both a materialist and a cultural perspective in a theory of justice is examined. We also discuss Honneth's Hegelian‐informed model of recognition. Critical realism, emphasizing a non‐reductionist perspective…
Applied interdisciplinary research
This article uses the philosophy of critical realism to overcome the problem that most contemporary guidelines for interdisciplinary research fail to provide would-be researchers with adequate advice. It arrives at five important steps in the interdisciplinary research process: an initial planning phase; a disciplinary phase; a teamwork phase characterized by cross-disciplinary understanding; and a transdisciplinary, creative phase that involves …
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research
Different methodological tendencies within the field of disability research are described, and the reductionism implicit in the historically dominant models is critiqued. The advantages of critical realism over rival metatheoretical positions, including empiricism, social constructionism, neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics, is shown, demonstrating in particular what is called the “double-inclusiveness” of critical realism. A non-reductionist schema …
Housing policy in Sweden - still a success story
Relocation and Health Effects on the Elderly A Commented Research Review
This paper summarizes and comments on the research on the relationship between relocation and morbidity/mortality among the elderly. In the present state of research there are not sufficient grounds for the drawing of general conclusions. On the other hand there is good reason for assuming that relocation under certain circumstances and for certain groups does lead to ill-health and to an increase in mortality. There is a lack of studies devoted …
French and Swedish teachers' social representations of social workers
Collaboration on children at risk is essential, but our knowledge about inter-professional collaboration between social workers and educators is limited. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to describe French and Swedish teachers' social representation of social workers; and (2) to compare these social representations. The French sample group is composed of 77 secondary school teachers (of students from 11 to 18 years old), and the Swedish samp…
Interagency collaboration in vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental health problems
There is an aspiration and policy within the European Union to fully involve persons with disabilities in the community; this implies an opportunity to gainful employment. A large percentage of disabled persons remain unemployed despite this policy, especially persons with mental health problems. This study aims at investigating how people with mental health problems and caseworkers in different agencies experience the vocational rehabilitation p…
Normative approaches to justice in physical education for pupils with physical disabilities – dilemmas of recognition and redistribution
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A ‘school for all’ means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of ‘disability’ is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this general educational dilemma using the context of physical education (PE) for pupils with physical disabilities within the compu…
The employer's perspective
The aim of this article is to examine employers' perspectives of the conditions of employment of people with disabilities within a context of wage subsidies. Employers in different workplaces were interviewed, and the interviews were analysed according to qualitative content analysis (Graneheim and Lundman 2004). The results show that four factors – attitude, matching, economic incentives and accommodations – are important for the employment of p…
Deaf people's employment and workplaces – similarities and differences in comparison with a reference population
This study aims to describe and analyze the characteristics of deaf people in employment and their workplaces in Sweden. A population of 2144 people born 1941–80 who attended a school for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total Swedish population born 1941–80. Data on these persons consisted of registered information from the year 2005. Results showed that there are differences between the workplaces of people …
Applying critical realism in an interdisciplinary context
In this wide-ranging interview Berth Danermark discusses several things. First, his route into realism via community activism, an interest in the theory and practice of Marx and Engels and the philosophy of Mario Bunge, and inspiration drawn from Herman Hesse. Second, the formation of the Nordic Network for Critical Realism and realism's enduring foothold in Scandinavia. Third, the career trajectory that took him from research on urban planning t…
Post-war urban and regional development in Albania
Hearing impairment, working life conditions, and gender
The purpose of this article is to examine differences and similarities in working conditions and health status between men and women with hearing impairments. This article is based on a material collected with a comprehensive questionnaire, looking at psycho‐social work environments and health status and answered by a total of 406 patients at two audiological clinics in Sweden. Examination of the data reveals a pattern of unfavourable conditions …
Relocation and Health Effects on the Elderly A Commented Research Review
This paper summarizes and comments on the research on the relationship between relocation and morbidity/mortality among the elderly. In the present state of research there are not sufficient grounds for the drawing of general conclusions. On the other hand there is good reason for assuming that relocation under certain circumstances and for certain groups does lead to ill-health and to an increase in mortality. There is a lack of studies devoted …
Housing policy in Sweden - still a success story
Locality Research and Comparative Analysis
A method is described to trace 'locality', or spatial variations in policy, through comparative analysis. It is argued that the problem of structure versus agency can never be solved once and for all by philosophical arguments, but always has to be rephrased into empirically manageable terms. This is possible through use of the 'most similar' approach of comparative analysis. When external structural determinants of policy are kept under control,…
Post-war urban and regional development in Albania
Hearing impairment, working life conditions, and gender
The purpose of this article is to examine differences and similarities in working conditions and health status between men and women with hearing impairments. This article is based on a material collected with a comprehensive questionnaire, looking at psycho‐social work environments and health status and answered by a total of 406 patients at two audiological clinics in Sweden. Examination of the data reveals a pattern of unfavourable conditions …
Social justice
The purpose of this article is to present some recent contributions to discussions on social justice and recognition in the context of disability research. Nancy Fraser's theory of redistribution and recognition, and her endeavour to include both a materialist and a cultural perspective in a theory of justice is examined. We also discuss Honneth's Hegelian‐informed model of recognition. Critical realism, emphasizing a non‐reductionist perspective…
Explaining Society
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
Kritisk realisme , By Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen
(2006). Kritisk realisme, By Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 414-417
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research
Different methodological tendencies within the field of disability research are described, and the reductionism implicit in the historically dominant models is critiqued. The advantages of critical realism over rival metatheoretical positions, including empiricism, social constructionism, neo-Kantianism and hermeneutics, is shown, demonstrating in particular what is called the “double-inclusiveness” of critical realism. A non-reductionist schema …
Importance of Social Support for Hard-of-Hearing Students in pursuing their “Educational Careers”
The aim was to describe different processes in what is termed the “educational career” of hard-of-hearing students. The data comprises narratives from 30 hard-of-hearing former students representing four groups: students from a special school who continued to university education or to employment; students from ordinary schools who continued to university education or to employment. The results indicate that support within the educational experie…
Social processes of participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia
Toward an Equal Level of Educational Attainment Between Deaf and Hearing People in Sweden
Various educational reforms in Sweden have resulted in a formally equivalent educational system for deaf and hearing pupils. Has this resulted in equal levels of educational attainment? This article compares 2,144 people born between 1941 and 1980 who attended a special education program for the deaf and 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total population born between 1941 and 1980. Data consist of registered information about the indiv…
Normative approaches to justice in physical education for pupils with physical disabilities – dilemmas of recognition and redistribution
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A ‘school for all’ means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of ‘disability’ is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this general educational dilemma using the context of physical education (PE) for pupils with physical disabilities within the compu…
Expectations, visions and sense of empowerment
The aim of this study is to reveal the meaning some people with psychiatric disabilities assigned to important experiences related to long periods of participation restrictions owing to unemployment and sick leave. The data comprise open-ended interviews with eight informants. A hermeneutic approach together with a comparative analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed six types of mechanisms important for the outcome of the rehabi…
Deaf people's employment and workplaces – similarities and differences in comparison with a reference population
This study aims to describe and analyze the characteristics of deaf people in employment and their workplaces in Sweden. A population of 2144 people born 1941–80 who attended a school for the deaf was compared to 100,000 randomly chosen individuals from the total Swedish population born 1941–80. Data on these persons consisted of registered information from the year 2005. Results showed that there are differences between the workplaces of people …
Derek Pomeroy Brereton, Campsteading
Interagency collaboration in vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental health problems
There is an aspiration and policy within the European Union to fully involve persons with disabilities in the community; this implies an opportunity to gainful employment. A large percentage of disabled persons remain unemployed despite this policy, especially persons with mental health problems. This study aims at investigating how people with mental health problems and caseworkers in different agencies experience the vocational rehabilitation p…
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
Education, Professionalization and Social Representations
The employer's perspective
The aim of this article is to examine employers' perspectives of the conditions of employment of people with disabilities within a context of wage subsidies. Employers in different workplaces were interviewed, and the interviews were analysed according to qualitative content analysis (Graneheim and Lundman 2004). The results show that four factors – attitude, matching, economic incentives and accommodations – are important for the employment of p…
French and Swedish teachers' social representations of social workers
Collaboration on children at risk is essential, but our knowledge about inter-professional collaboration between social workers and educators is limited. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to describe French and Swedish teachers' social representation of social workers; and (2) to compare these social representations. The French sample group is composed of 77 secondary school teachers (of students from 11 to 18 years old), and the Swedish samp…
Critical methodological pluralism – intensive and extensive research design and interdisciplinarity
The concepts intensive and extensive have been used to denote different methodological approaches in social science. The way in which the intensive and extensive procedures relate to qualitative and quantitative methods can be described thus: the intensive empirical procedure contains substantial elements of data collecting and analyses of a qualitative kind. An intensive empirical approach is characterized by focusing on a particular case or jus…
Generalization, scientific inference, and models for explanatory social science
This chapter presents methodological guidelines for a social science based on critical realism. It describes several alternative models for an explanatory social science and focuses on a demonstration of how the different forms of generalizations. The ways in which generalizations are applied and prioritized have significant epistemological and ontological implications. Frames of interpretation and theories are more or less reasonable; they diffe…
Science and reality
This chapter focuses on similarities and differences between the natural and social sciences, and, eventually, arrive at a set of methodological principles for social science analyses. It discusses the most central issue in science: the relation between science and reality and explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the objects of the natural and social sciences. The chapter explains the critical realist understanding of science and…
Theory in the methodology of social science
This chapter aims to clarifying what a theory is, from the perspective of critical realism. It explores the components of theories – concepts and describes different ways of relating theories to data in research practice. The chapter discusses the critical realist view, it is essential to distinguish between the different theoretical languages that exist within social sciences. Social scientific skill in essence is a matter of analysing, developi…
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