Journal of Critical Realism

ISSNs: 1476-7430, 1572-5138

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    Intersectionality of gender and age (‘gender*age’): a critical realist approach to explaining older women’s increased homelessness.Lyn Craig & Catherine Hastings - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):361-383.
    Older single women in Australia are increasingly experiencing homelessness. Age and gender seem inherently related to single older women’s housing crises, but no attempt has been made to account for the causes of their homelessness through an intersectional lens. This article develops a complex and contingent causal explanation of the structures and mechanisms implicated in growing homelessness for this group. We demonstrate an original use of critical realist-informed intersectional analysis which is characterized by stratified social ontology and emergence. We theoretically (...)
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    The reflexivity of innovators from Poland through the lens of critical realism.Agnieszka Karpinska - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):384-409.
    Although the issue of innovation is widely recognized in many scientific disciplines, innovators themselves have received scant attention in research literature. The aim of this study is to explore the experience of innovators from the perspective of the social agency paradigm developed by Margaret Archer, which suggests that structural and cultural properties affect individual reflexivity through the accessibility of resources and the beliefs that agents endorse. Data was collected through individual in-depth interviews with Polish innovators, revealing that they function in (...)
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    When critical realism was ‘new' and what came after: an interview with William Outhwaite.William Outhwaite & Jamie Morgan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):438-466.
    William Outhwaite is well-known as an early proponent of critical realism and for his work on European politics, critical theory and on Jürgen Habermas. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses his life and career, including how he came to write on subjects that intersected with and developed themes Roy Bhaskar was also working on at the time. This work resulted in three early books, Understanding Social Life, Concept Formation in Social Science and New Philosophies of Social Science, the last of (...)
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    Social security in the Balkans volume 2, an overview of social policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro. [REVIEW]Paul Morton PhD - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):467-472.
    This book is of interest to critical realists because its writers show how the neoliberal reforms in the Balkans, related to the provision of social security, demonstrate a complex combination of d...
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    Social security in the Balkans volume 2, an overview of social policy in the Republics of North Macedonia and Montenegro.Paul Morton PhD - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):467-472.
    Volume 23, Issue 4, August 2024, Page 467-472.
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    Bridge building, medical sociology and beyond: an interview with Graham Scambler.Graham Scambler & Jamie Morgan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):410-437.
    In this wide-ranging interview Graham Scambler provides an overview of his long academic career. He discusses how he became a medical sociologist, his early work on epilepsy and stigma, his part in the development of sociology textbooks for medical students, the diversity of his work and his many collaborations, his ‘theoretical turn’, his longstanding interest in critical realism and his attitude to ‘bridge building’ between philosophy and empirical work.
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    Intersectionality of gender and age (‘gender*age’): a critical realist approach to explaining older women’s increased homelessness.Lyn Craig Catherine Hastings A. School of Social - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (4):361-383.
    Older single women in Australia are increasingly experiencing homelessness. Age and gender seem inherently related to single older women’s housing crises, but no attempt has been made to account for the causes of their homelessness through an intersectional lens. This article develops a complex and contingent causal explanation of the structures and mechanisms implicated in growing homelessness for this group. We demonstrate an original use of critical realist-informed intersectional analysis which is characterized by stratified social ontology and emergence. We theoretically (...)
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    Racism, identity, and education: Bhaskar's report on the PhD thesis ‘Strong and Smart’ by Chris Sarra.Roy Bhaskar - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):245-257.
    In 2005, Ram Roy Bhaskar was the examiner for a PhD thesis by Dr. Chris Sarra entitled Strong and Smart: Reinforcing Aboriginal Perceptions of Being Aboriginal at Cherbourg State School. Bhaskar described the thesis as ‘an exemplary paradigm of how research should be conducted’ and suggested that it would be ‘invaluable for all future studies of indigenous people in Australia and indeed to educationalists and social theorists throughout the world’. With thanks to Chris Sarra, we are delighted to be able (...)
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    A paradigm shift in giftedness research: integrating critical realism’s ontology, epistemology, and methodology.Kubra Kirca Demirbaga - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):292-312.
    This paper discusses the integration of critical realist ontology, epistemology, and methodology into giftedness and gifted education research. Although there is no consensus about the complex nature of giftedness, a paradigmatic shift is underway, emphasizing the impact of contextual and social factors in shaping gifted performance. Despite this shift, the ontological, epistemological, and methodological stances are often overlooked, leading to an incomplete understanding of the complex interaction between individuals and their context and constraining the potential to offer realistic and functional (...)
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    Further reflections on theory as time travel: a response to Morgan.Finland Helsinki - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):351-359.
    Volume 23, Issue 3, June 2024, Page 351-359.
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    Excluded or included – structural preconditions for occupational well-being among blue-collar temporary agency workers within the Swedish manufacturing industry.Andreas Kjörling, Gunnar Bergström, B. Anna Jansson, Tuukka Kaidesoja & Sven Svensson - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):313-333.
    The purpose of this article is to explore structural preconditions for occupational well-being among blue-collar temporary agency workers within the Swedish manufacturing industry based on managers’ views and expectations of the worker. Through 25 interviews, we investigate how blue-collar temporary agency workers are seen by management using critical realism and the concept of ‘norm circles’ to analyse spatial, relational, sociotechnical and normative structures. We show how structures and norm circles possess alienating or dealienating mechanisms that precondition blue-collar temporary agency workers’ (...)
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    Expanding knowledge through sequential world views – a critical realist approach.Alan Labas - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):258-273.
    This paper addresses concerns that critical realism is a philosophy in search of a method, and that little guidance exists for the application of the philosophy to social research. It advances the idea that the absence of a philosophically embedded method gives critical realists the freedom to choose methods best suited to answering research questions under investigation. The paper utilizes a study into business advisor knowledge transmission, explicating how a sequential world views approach can be used to progressively expand knowledge (...)
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    Employing critical realism within and beyond social studies of health: tenets, applications, possible future research and action.Ireland Limerick - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):274-291.
    Volume 23, Issue 3, June 2024, Page 274-291.
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    Employing critical realism within and beyond social studies of health: tenets, applications, possible future research and action.Lee F. Monaghan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):274-291.
    Critical realism provides an alternative to positivism and interpretivism. It foregrounds ontology and an evaluative approach to knowledge, while promoting eclectic reasoning, transdisciplinarity, and ethical research across the quantitative/qualitative, macro/micro and other divides. Health researchers have usefully employed critical realism, though it has also been dismissed as strange, a source of self-deception and hubris. Furthermore, it has been accused of dehumanizing many people. Responding to these charges, this article makes the case for carefully employing critical realism within and beyond social (...)
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    Theory as time travel: Patomäki, World Statehood and possible futures. [REVIEW]Jamie Morgan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):334-350.
    In this review essay, I set explore Heikki Patomäki's seventh sole-authored book in English, World Statehood. I set out the thematic structure and chapter order and then address whether the concept of ‘self-transformative capacity of contexts’ implies a central conflation and what is assumed if one argues that there is a tendential form of civilizational progress. I conclude with discussion of a causal process theory of time.
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    Further reflections on theory as time travel: a response to Morgan.Heikki Patomäki - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (3):351-359.
    In his review essay on World Statehood, Morgan poses three questions, namely: does my conceptualization imply conflation of agency and structure; is the realist processual account of time contradictory; and have we humans already reached the limit of the possible? I address each question briefly one at a time, arguing that the concept of self-transformative capacity of contexts does not imply conflation; that various processes with different durations can exhibit patterns that can be reasonably discussed and assessed and, with caution, (...)
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    Critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for the implementation of digital twins for urban management.Ramy Elsehrawy Bimal Kumar Richard Watson Architecture - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):187-223.
    Volume 23, Issue 2, April 2024, Page 187-223.
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    Call for papers: special issue on Morphogenetic Régulation.Karim Kniou Associate Editor - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):243-244.
    Volume 23, Issue 2, April 2024, Page 243-244.
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    Critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for the implementation of digital twins for urban management.Ramy Elsehrawy, Bimal Kumar & Richard Watson - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):187-223.
    This paper promotes critical realism as a suitable and fruitful philosophical foundation for the development and implementation of urban digital twins. The proliferation of a-theoretical digital twin research and practices, not declaring their philosophical positions, is threatening the scientific soundness of this new paradigm and offers little evidence for reflecting on the knowledge it produces. To address this issue, first, this paper uses focus group discussions to explore digital twin experts’ perceptions of digital twin best practices for urban management and (...)
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    The question of epistemic fallacy in practical research: the case of IR.Abbas Farasoo - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):121-143.
    In international politics, bridging the gap between the real and knowledge poses a persistent challenge as translating the real into concepts and narratives can nurture the epistemic fallacy. Critical realism addresses this by separating ontology from epistemology at the meta-theoretical level, yet in practical research, critical realism tends to impose assumptions about the ontological complexity of the real at the transcendental level. This paper examines the practical difficulty of overcoming the epistemic fallacy in International Relations inquiries, asserting that critical realism (...)
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    Call for papers: special issue on Morphogenetic Régulation.Karim Kniou - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):243-244.
    Volume 23, Issue 2, April 2024, Page 243-244.
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    The pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British exceptionalism and neoliberalism.Jamie Morgan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):237-242.
    Volume 23, Issue 2, April 2024, Page 237-242.
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    Critique and its foundations: on critical realism and the Frankfurt School.Jaakko Nevasto - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):169-186.
    In this paper, I assess some recent critical realist constructive criticisms of Theodor Adorno, one of the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory. I argue that while there are similarities between Adorno’s treatment of causality and the critical realist notion of powers, these connections should not be taken to imply that Adorno’s conception of critique requires a critical realist powers ontology. I show that Bhaskar’s transcendental realism is at odds with the basic commitments of Adorno’s historical (...)
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    The contribution of Angels Fear to metaReality: Gregory Bateson and Roy Bhaskar’s idiosyncratic approaches to the sacred.Rob Faure Walker - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):224-236.
    Gregory Bateson’s career from anthropologist, through his development of cybernetics and systems theory, to developing ideas around ‘the sacred’, has parallels with Roy Bhaskar’s intellectual journey. This paper proposes that as well as Bateson’s theory of cybernetics and systemic thought making a contribution to basic and dialectic critical realism, his final and posthumously published Angels Fear: Towards and Epistemology of the Sacred adds to our understanding of Bhaskar’s metaReality. Similarities between the development of Bateson’s work from 1936 to 1987 and (...)
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    Meaning of work as a personal emergent power[?]: developing theory based on a critical realist study of Sri Lankan workers.Lakshman Wimalasena & James Richards - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (2):144-168.
    Research on the `meaning of work', especially concerning the Global South, is scarce. This paper aims to reduce this scarcity by applying critical realist meta-theory to the work and life history interviews of workers in Sri Lanka. A key discovery is that finding meaning in life through work is a personal emergent power and that, as such, it explains the way that individuals consciously manoeuvre their life-journeys towards a desired end - a modus vivendi - in a dialectic which involves (...)
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    PISA and teachers’ reflexivities. A mixed methods case study.Terje André Bringeland & Tone Skinningsrud - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (1):53-80.
    Neoliberal educational reforms include extensive use of standardized tests. We examine the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) initiated and developed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Examining previous research on teachers’ reactions to neoliberal reforms altering their work context, we have identified three theoretical frameworks in use: labour process theory, derived from structural Marxism; post-structuralism, relying primarily on Foucault’s conceptualizations; and ‘new professionalism’, which has emerged from the theory of professions. A major weakness in these frameworks (...)
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    The four C’s model of thematic analysis. A critical realist perspective.Michalis Christodoulou - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (1):33-52.
    This article provides a critical realist (CR) alternative to the standard approaches to Thematic Analysis (TA) in qualitative research, namely the Braun-Clarke approach (reflexivity while coding themes), the Attride-Sterling approach (clustering basic, global and organizing themes), and Boyatzis' approach (clarifying criteria for assessing the absence/presence of themes in the raw material). In the CR traditions, the experiential themes /inferential themes /dispositional themes and the data/codes/themes distinctions have been proposed recently as the methodological device for answering the question “what is the (...)
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    (1 other version)Making realism work, from second wave feminism to extinction rebellion: an interview with Caroline New.Caroline New & Jamie Morgan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (1):81-120.
    Caroline New is an energetic activist who has interpolated critical realist ideas into the front-line of political activism. In this wide-ranging interview, she begins by reflecting on her life and how she became a realist and her account is illustrated with personal anecdotes recalling memories of well-known philosophers and activists from the time. She discusses how her position set her apart from other feminists and she examines the interacting threads of longstanding debates on the political left, as well as longstanding (...)
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    The discursive emergence of ‘the market’ in capitalist political economy: crisis system and the Longue Durée.Rob Faure Walker & John P. O’Regan - 2024 - Journal of Critical Realism 23 (1):1-17.
    This paper presents a longue durée account of the discursive emergence of ‘the market'. It seeks to develop understanding of the ‘crisis system' by showing that the crises of the present have their origins earlier than some critical realist scholars have suggested and can be better understood by the theorization of the generative mechanisms that emerged from the economic and political chaos of the early 1600s. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is employed to show that in the context of the emergence (...)
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