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Realist methodology / edited by Wendy Olsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sage knowledge.
- Sage benchmarks in social research methods
- SAGE benchmarks in social research methods
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Realism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 volume) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [Calif.] : SAGE, 2010.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Realism is an approach to humanity which recognizes the real existence of social objects as well as physical objects. Thus realism does involve being realistic. But more importantly, it asserts that the things we are studying in social research have some prior existence and would continue to exist even if our knowledge of them was limited. Indeed, sometimes our knowledge is quite wrong, and realists assert that the real world will tend to constrain science so that wrong claims get challenged.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Practical realist ontology
- volume 2. Realist methods
- volume 3. Realist empirical research
- volume 4. Knowledge and meta-knowledge in realism.
- Notes:
- Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9781446263228
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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