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Realist Inquiry in Social Science.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haig, Brian Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Research.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sage Text UK, 2015.
- Summary:
- With a strong focus on the theoretical, this book covers both the fundamentals and important applications of realist research and clearly illustrates why scientific realism is of such relevance to the social sciences.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Scientific Realism
- Introduction
- What is Realism?
- Naturalistic Realism
- Global and Local Realism
- Realist Methodology
- The Centrality of Method
- Realism in the Social Sciences
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- References
- 2.Evidence
- Social Science Preliminaries
- Empirical Evidence and Theory
- Coherentism and Naturalism
- Varieties of Evidence: Pragmatic Considerations
- 3.Validity
- Test Validity, Operational Definition and Logical Empiricism
- Holism, Realism and Ontological Commitment
- Construct Validity and Logical Empiricism
- Construct Validity, Generalization in Experiments and Epistemology
- Paradigms of Validity
- Coherence Justification
- 4.Grounded Theory Method
- The Abductive Theory of Method
- Problem Formulation
- Phenomena Detection
- Note continued: Theory Construction
- ATOM as a Grounded Theory Method
- 5.Factor Analysis
- Exploratory Factor Analysis and Scientific Inference
- Methodological Challenges to Exploratory Factor Analysis
- EFA and Other Factor Analytic Methods
- 6.Case Study
- Constitutive and Regulative Rules
- What is a Case?
- Generalizing From Cases
- A Case Study in China
- Making Generalizations
- Improving Knowledge of Generalizations
- References.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781529728583
- 1529728584
- 9781473943117
- 1473943116
- 9781473943124
- 1473943124
- OCLC:
- 932062062
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