A guest post by Cristián Navarrete. In this blog, Cristián Navarrete introduces the Spanish translation of Tom Fryer’s short guide to ontology and epistemology: “Una breve guía para la ontología y epistemología (por qué todos debiesen ser realistas críticos)” and… Read More »Investigando lo social: ontología, epistemología y realismo crítico
A guest post by Hubert Buch-Hansen and Peter Nielsen When we decided in 2019 to frame our book Critical Realism: Basics and Beyond around the topic of crisis, we had no idea that a new global health crisis was lurking… Read More »Critical realism in times of crisis
A guest post by Joseph E. Davis Since the 1980s a profound but quiet shift has taken place in how ordinary Americans think about the roots of mental health problems, including what might be called everyday suffering. Large population surveys… Read More »Suffering Selves as Broken Mechanisms
Critical Realism Matters is a series of webinar events held to showcase and celebrate the enormous potential of critical realism. The latest webinar, on Wednesday 24 June 2020, celebrated the launch of the new edited book Critical Realism, Feminism and… Read More »Critical realism and gender video available on YouTube
Review of Lawson, T. (2019). The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology. London and New York: Routledge. This review by Yannick Slade-Caffarel was originally published on the Developing Economics blog on June 2, 2020. Ontology is the study… Read More »The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology (Review)
Critical Realism Matters is a new series of webinar events held to showcase and celebrate the enormous potential of critical realism. The first pair of webinars, taking place on Saturday 16 November, 2019, have been planned to commemorate the 5th anniversary… Read More »Critical Realism Matters Webinar Series
One does not associate the term “realism” with CW Mills. Conventionally, pragmatism is his home. But, that’s mostly because no one (but the kids) took a peace-oriented realist seriously. Indeed, after reading The Causes of World War III there can be little doubt that Mills was a realist. A quick example, that I’ll deal with in more detail below…
Dear Sociologist, I have been thinking over your article’s recent rejection, your gripes about the field, and the trouble with academic publishing. I am of the opinion that academic sociology journals may never deliver us what we really want —… Read More »Listen Sociologist! The Post-Positivist Revolution in Sociology
This is a guest blog post written by Joselito Ranara JIMENEZ from Osaka, Japan, who presented at the Beyond Positivism: Theory, Methods, and Values in Social Science Conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2017. This post first appeared on http://www.critrealap.net With… Read More »Two Key Takeaways From The Beyond Positivism Conference by a Critical Realist Orphan in Japan
A post by Tim Rutzou. In a recent review of the 2015 books Reconstructing Sociology: The Critical Realist Approach by Douglas V. Porpora and The Relational Subject by Pierpaolo Donati and Margaret S. Archer, Neil Gross “rips critical realism a new one”. Gross takes aim at… Read More »The royal road to sociological truth? Is there a need for critical realism?