Critical realism: A structured reading guide
Introduction to critical realism
What is Critical Realism? And Why Should you Care? by Philip Gorski [article]
Reconstructing Sociology by Douglas Porpora
Critical Realism and Historical Sociology by George Steinmetz
Realism and Social Science by Andrew Sayer
Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy by Andrew Collier
Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences by George Steinmetz
Methods
Explaining Society: An introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences by Berth Danermark et al
Odious Comparisons- Incommensurability, the Case Study, and ‘Small N’s’ in Sociology by George Steinmetz
Method in Social Science by Andrew Sayer
The AART of Ethnography: A Critical Realist Explanatory Research Model by Claire Decoteau
Studying Organisations Using Critical Realism by Paul Edwards et al
The Poverty of Deductivism by Philip Gorski [article]
Comparative History and its Critics- A Genealogy and a Possible Solution by George Steinmetz
Peripheral Vision Discourse Analysis in Organization Studies: The Case for Critical Realism by Norman Fairclough
Economics and Reality by Tony Lawson
Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research: A Critical Realist Perspective by Roy Bhaskar and Berth Danermark
The Recent Methods Debate in American Sociology and how Critical Realism fits into it by Douglas Porpora [article]
Empirical research
“The Devil’s Handwriting”: Precolonial Discourse, Ethnographic Acuity and Cross-Identification in German Colonialism by George Steinmetz [article]
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation by Margaret Archer
The Reflexive Imperative by Margaret Archer
Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies by Steve Fleetwood and Stephen Ackroyd
Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy by Dave Elder-Vass
Philosophy of social science
Critical Realism: Essential Readings edited by Margaret Archer et.al.
The Possibility of Naturalism by Roy Bhaskar
Varieties of Social Explanation by Daniel Little
What’s Critical about Critical Realism? by Frederic Vandenberghe
Causation
A Realist Theory of Science by Roy Bhaskar
Ontology Revisited by Ruth Groff
Getting Causes from Powers by Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum
Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism by Ruth Groff and John Greco [edited volume]
Structure and culture
Four Concepts of Social Structure by Douglas Porpora [article]
Structuration versus Morphogenesis: on Combining Structure and Action by Margaret Archer [article]
The Causal Power of Social Structures by Dave Elder-Vass
Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation? by Tony Lawson [chapter]
The Conceptual Incoherence of Culture in American Sociology by Christian Smith [article]
Engagement with other theorists
Sociology in an Era of Fragmentation by George Steinmetz and Ou-Byung Chae
”The real is relational”: An Inquiry into Pierre Bourdieu’s Constructivist Epistemology by Frederic Vandenberghe [article]
Reconstructing Humants by Frederic Vandenberghe [article]
The Reflexive Habitus: Critical Realist and Bourdieusian Social Action by Claire Decouteau [article]
The Reality of Social Construction by Dave Elder-Vass
Disassembling Assemblage Theory by Dave Elder-Vass [article]
Searching for Realism,Structure and Agency in Actor-Network Theory by Dave Elder-Vass [article]
The Resources of Critique by Alex Callinicos
Realism, Discourse, Deconstruction by Jonathan Jospeh and John Michael Roberts [edited volume]
Ethics and values
Beyond the Fact/Value Distinction: Ethical Naturalism and the Social Sciences by Philip Gorski [article]
Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life by Andrew Sayer
Profit and Gift in the Digital Economy by Dave Elder-Vass
What is a Person? by Christian Smith
To Flourish or Destruct by Christian Smith
Critical Realism and the Limits to Critical Social Science by Andrew Sayer [article]
A Realist Social Ontology of Religion by Kevin Schilbrack [article]