How can critical realism help us understand issues of social cohesion and division within communities?

This response argues that critical realism is not properly part of the sociomaterial stream of research as it violates the five basic notions of ... Critical Realism (CR) is, in my view, the most promising general approach to social science for best framing our research and theory. CR, as a philosophy of ... Jan 7, 2021 ... ... research process from two PhD projects to investigate critical realism's role in OSCM research. ... Researchers can use critical realism ... Feb 29, 2016 ... Critical realism (CR) is a useful philosophical framework for social science; however, little guidance is available on which precise methods ... The purpose of critical realist research is to determine which causal mechanisms have been triggered in this situation, and what effect they are having. An ... Dec 11, 2024 ... Re-working the meta-theory into a six-step sequence, and with the aid of a concrete example based on realistic fiction, the chapter shows how ... We argue that critical realism provides a coherent framework for evaluation research that is based on the understanding of causal mechanisms. Nov 10, 2023 ... Original language, English. Title of host publication, Nurturing modalities of inquiry in entrepreneurship research. This paper aims to grapple with the notion of reflexivity from a structural point of view, which is less discussed in sustainability research, by drawing on ... In this research, which is conducted in a library method and presented in a descriptive-analytical method, we intend to explain the principles of critical ...