by Laura Donnelly | Apr 28, 2016 | Research & Methods
Margarita Mooney first published this blog entry on Patheos on April 17, 2016. In my upcoming webinar on critical realism and research methods, I plan to propose 2 ways to incorporate CR into research methods classes. Remember, CR is not another form of...
by Laura Donnelly | Apr 28, 2016 | Research & Methods
Margarita Mooney first published this blog entry on Patheos on April 17, 2016. This post is about my five favorite articles that explicitly use critical realism as a meta-theoretical framework. Three of the articles I summarize below (Danermark, Decoteau, and Mooney)...
by Laura Donnelly | Apr 22, 2016 | Research & Methods
Margarita Mooney first published this blog entry on Patheos on April 16, 2016. Although I’m a sociologist, I’ve included books from other disciplines as well, such as economics, disability studies, and management. Even though I can’t say enough good things about each...
by Timothy Rutzou | Jan 11, 2016 | Research & Methods
A guest blog by Dr. Joe O’Mahoney (Reader, Cardiff Business School) Dr. O’Mahoney is particularly interested in how to put critical realism into practice and how critical realism impacts the way we do research. He is the co-editor of the volume Studying...
by Laura Donnelly | Sep 10, 2015 | Research & Methods
This post was originally published on September 9, 2015 on Margarita Mooney’s blog. What might critical realist research methods look like? At the 2015 Annual Meetings of the International Association of Critical Realism, I discussed some common problems I saw...
by Timothy Rutzou | Jul 11, 2015 | Research & Methods
The Critical Realism Network is very excited about this new introductory-level critical realism book written by Professor Porpora, Reconstructing Sociology: The Critical Realist Perspective. This book offers a general critique of sociology, particularly in the United...
