Method in Social Science
A Realist Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11091161 |
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| Authors | John Harp (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 453 |
| Publication date | 1986-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Method in Social Science: Revised 2nd Edition, Andrew Sayer, 1984 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2070081 |
| OpenAlex | W2089549167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Preface to the second edition. Introduction. 1. Knowledge in context 2. Theory, observation and practical adequacy 3. Theory and method I: abstraction, structure and cause 4. Theory and method II: types of system and their implications 5. Some influential misadventures in the philosophy of science 6. Quantitative methods in social science 7. Verification and falsification 8. Popper's 'falsificationism' 9. Problems of explanation and the aims of social science. Notes and references. Bibliography. Index
Social science · Sociology · Philosophy and History of Science
Indigenous Water Governance in the Anthropocene
Perceptions of diabetes patients and their caregivers regarding access to medicine in a severely constrained health system
Mendobrak Dominasi Perkembangan Sejarah
Energy materiality
Ten challenges for computer models in transitions research
Developing 'whole people'
Science as a Vocation in the Era of Big Data
In between External and Internal Worlds
Ethnomedicine and dominant medicine in multicultural Australia
Adaptive capacities and social resilience on Kangaroo Island
Spatio-temporalities of convenience eating for sustainability outcomes at an inner-urban university
Evolutionary Perspectives on Rural Australia
The dynamics of purposeful change
Dissenting from what? the rupture of Chilean teachers with the long-term consensus on teacher professional development
Unreliable memories and other contingencies
Beyond firm-centrism
Ilga kelionė iš Mėmelio į Klaipėdą, o paskui - per Akropolį namo
Fenomenologiškai grindžiamos socialinės teorijos sampratos klausimu. I. Sociologija, fenomenologiškai grindžiama metodologija ir kriterijų radikalizavimas
Contributive Injustice and Unequal Division of Labour in the Voluntary Sector
Understanding Tradition
Stakeholder involvement in realist evaluation
Explaining geographies of health care
Heritagization of religious sites
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework
The limits of process
Actors and Networks or Agents and Structures
From the Search for Universal Correlations to the Institutional Structuring of Economic Organization and Change
Understanding the magnitude and extent of crime in post-apartheid South Africa
Beyond recreation
Networks of Urbanization in Two Indian Cities
The national identity of post-communist small states in the process of accession to the European Union
Environment, not planning
Re-theorising the core
Real’ political geography
Geographic impacts of the political
Living together separately
In what sense a region? Place hybridity, symbolic shape, and institutional formation in (post-) modern Scotland
Transnational institutional fields
Contesting 'sex' and 'gender' difference in emotions through music use in the UK
The contradictory nature of knowledge
SEE Beyond Substantive Economics
A Reply to Levrel and Martinet
No Place
Contextual Diversity in Gentrification Research
Capital , Capitalism and Health
A Critical Realist Model for Organizational Sociology
The dynamics of value, price and profit
Objective but not detached
Economic geography
Exclusion and Difference along the EU Border
World Cities and the Uneven Geographies of Financialization
For Slow Research
Why Cities? A Response
Positively Radical
Embedding entrepreneurship in social structure
State Rescaling in Non-Western Contexts
You're Good with your Hands, Why Don't You Become an Auto Mechanic
Institutional Responses to EU Challenges
Commentary
Do History and Geography Matter? Regional Unemployment Dynamics in a Resource-Dependent Economy
Community Currencies
Globalisation, Neoliberalism, and Negotiated Development in the Andes
Planning Style and Agency Properties
Does Deindustrialisation Cause Social Polarisation in Global Cities
For Polanyian Economic Geographies
Convenience as care
Deconstructing Regions
Making Performance Plants from Branch Plants? In Situ Restructuring in the Automobile Industry in the United Kingdom
My Dinner with Derrida, or Spatial Analysis and Poststructuralism Do Lunch
Reconceptualising Manufacturing-Service Linkages
Realism and the Nature of Theory
The Narrow Notion of Realism in Human Geography
Do Regions Exist? Implications of Synergetics for Regional Geography
Realisms through Thick and Thin
Geographies of Abstraction, Urban Entrepreneurialism, and the Production of New Cultural Spaces
Back to the Future of Geography
Białowieża Forest, Poland
Geographical Economics versus Economic Geography
Foreign-Owned Firms and Regional-Functional Specialization
Agent-Based Models and Individualism
Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure
Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Social Research in Human Geography-An Impossible Mixture
Spatial Selectivity of the State? The Regulationist Enigma and Local Struggles over Economic Governance
Industrial Agglomerations as Localised Networks
A realist review of scholarly experiences in medical education
Navigating the demands of academic work to shape an academic job
Social welfare matters
Understanding the dialectical relationship between governance and governance outcomes in the context of urban (re)development
Reframing convenience food
Methods in realist evaluation
Where does new theory come from
Speaking theoretically about population health
Population Health in Canada
Are in‐migrant proprietors driving or enhancing cultural heritage tourism in transitioning resource‐dependent communities? The case of Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador
Étudier à Québec un demi-siècle après Raoul Blanchard
What makes for a successful sociology? A response to “Against a descriptive turn”
Integration and retention of international medical graduates in rural communities
Sociology's unspoken weakness
Scaling Up Political Ecology
Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Intersubjectivity in Economic Geography
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