A guest blog by Luis Flores Luis is a second-year doctoral student in sociology at the University of Michigan. His interests concern U.S. political economy, household finance, and social welfare in the 20th century. His interest in realist and pragmatist approaches to social scientific… Read More »Musings on the Material Elements of a Social Structure
How does emergence help us to think through issues in social theory, sociology, and social science? Since the webinar the other week with Philip Gorski (available here) I have been contemplating a series of interrelated questions: how do we understand… Read More »Thinking about the Re-emergence of Emergence in Social Theory
It is a prevalent habit of philosophers to periodically proclaim the death of realism. Whether it is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of truth as being immanent to particular forms of life, Richard Rorty’s neo-pragmatism which shatters the mirror of nature, or… Read More »Demythologizing Realism
In November 2014 Roy Bhaskar, whose work helped to crystalize the movement of critical realists, passed away. As a way of remembering him, his theoretical work, and his contribution to this project we would like to take a moment to… Read More »Remembering Roy Bhaskar 1944 – 2014
Welcome to our blog for the Critical Realism Network. We are aiming to provide a dialogue about the current state of sociology and the need for a more robust theoretical framework for our research is conducted. This is certainly not… Read More »Welcome to the Critical Realism Network Blog