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    Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life.Andrew Sayer - 2011 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
    Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters of convention, with little or nothing to do with the kind of beings people (...)
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    A realist journey through social theory and political economy: an interview with Andrew Sayer.Andrew Sayer & Jamie Morgan - 2022 - Journal of Critical Realism 21 (4):434-470.
    In this wide-ranging interview Andrew Sayer discusses how he became a realist and then the development of his work over the subsequent decades. He comments on his postdisciplinary approach, his early work on economy and its influences, how he came to write Method in Social Science and the transition in Realism and Social Science to normative critical social science and moral economy. The interview concludes with discussion of his three most recent books and the themes that connect them, not least (...)
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  3. Normativity and naturalism as if nature mattered.Andrew Sayer - 2019 - Journal of Critical Realism 18 (3):258-273.
    The usual way of discussing normativity and naturalism is by running through a standard range of issues: the relations of fact and value, objectivity, reason and emotion, is and ought, and the so-called ‘naturalistic fallacy’. This is a naturalism that is virtually silent on nature. I outline an alternative approach that relates normativity to our nature as living beings, for whom specific things are good or bad for us. Our nature as evaluative beings is shown to be rooted in and (...)
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  4. Contributive justice and meaningful work.Andrew Sayer - 2009 - Res Publica 15 (1):1-16.
    The dominant focus of thinking about economic justice is overwhelmingly distributive, that is, concerned with what people get in terms of resources and opportunities. It views work mainly negatively, as a burden or cost, or else is neutral about it, rather than seeing it as a source of meaning and fulfilment—a good in its own right. However, what we do in life has at least as much, if not more, influence on whom we become, as does what we get . (...)
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  5. Critical Realism and Semiosis.Norman Fairclough, Bob Jessop & Andrew Sayer - 2002 - Journal of Critical Realism 5 (1):2-10.
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  6. Symposium on The Space That Separates: A Realist Theory of Art.Dave Elder-Vass, Andrew Sayer, Tobin Nellhaus, Ian Verstegen, Alan Norrie & Nick Wilson - 2022 - Journal of Critical Realism 22 (1):90-121.
    Editor’s NoteThanks to the initiative of Alan Norrie, we are pleased to present here a symposium on Nick Wilson’s book The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art. Several authors have contri...
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  7. Abstraction: a realist interpretation.Andrew Sayer - 1981 - Radical Philosophy 28 (2):6-15.
     
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  8. Class, moral worth, and recognition.Andrew Sayer - 2007 - In Terry Lovell (ed.), (Mis)recognition, social inequality and social justice: Nancy Fraser and Pierre Bourdieu. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Welfare and Moral Economy.Andrew Sayer - 2018 - Ethics and Social Welfare 12 (1):20-33.
    The paper offers a wide-angle view of ethics and welfare through the lens of ‘moral economy’. It examines economic activities in relation to a view of welfare as well-being, and to ethics in terms of economic justice. Rather than draw upon abstract ideal theories such as Rawlsian or Capabilities approaches, it calls for an evaluation of actually existing sources of harm and benefit in neoliberal capitalism. It argues that we need to look behind economic outcomes in terms of how much (...)
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    Critical realism and the limits to critical social science.Andrew Sayer - 1997 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 27 (4):473–488.
    The paper assesses the aims and arguments of critical social science and the reconstructions of it provided by critical realist philosophy. It argues that attempts to derive normative conclusions on the basis of explanatory critiques of social phenomena are flawed in several important respects. Accounts of critical social science standardly underestimate the problems of justifying critical standpoints and finding alternative social forms which generate fewer problems than those they replace, and hence lead to net improvement. By arguing that value positions (...)
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  11. Christian Smith, What is a Person?Andrew Sayer - 2012 - Journal of Critical Realism 11 (1):126-132.
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    (1 other version)Critical Realist Methodology: A View from Sweden. Review of Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences by Berth Danermark, Mats Engström, Liselotte Jakobsen and Jan Ch. Karlsson.Andrew Sayer - 2002 - Journal of Critical Realism 1 (1):168-170.
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  13. Realism and geography.Andrew Sayer - 1985 - In Ronald John Johnston (ed.), The Future of geography. New York: Methuen. pp. 159--173.
     
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    7 Restoring the moral dimension in social scientific accounts.Andrew Sayer - 2004 - In Andrew Collier, Margaret Scotford Archer & William Outhwaite (eds.), Defending objectivity: essays in honour of Andrew Collier. New York: Routledge. pp. 93--113.
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    (1 other version)Critical Realism: What Difference Does It Make? Addresses to the Closing Plenary of The Fourth Annual IACR International Conference, The University of Lancaster, UK, August 2000.Ruth Kowalczyk, Andrew Sayer & Caroline New - 2000 - Journal of Critical Realism 3 (2).
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  16. A qualified ethical naturalist approach.Andrew Sayer - 2004 - In Andrew Collier, Margaret Scotford Archer & William Outhwaite (eds.), Defending objectivity: essays in honour of Andrew Collier. New York: Routledge. pp. 93.
     
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    Macht, Kausalität und Normativität.Andrew Sayer - 2014 - Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialtheorie Und Philosophie 1 (2):325-349.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie Jahrgang: 1 Heft: 2 Seiten: 325-349.
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  18. On the dialogue between humanism and historical materialism in geography.Andrew Sayer - 1989 - In Audrey Lynn Kobayashi & Suzanne Mackenzie (eds.), Remaking human geography. Boston: Unwin Hyman. pp. 206--226.
     
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    Würde am Arbeitsplatz.Andrew Sayer - 2012 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (4):557-572.
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    Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. By Margaret S. Archer. [REVIEW]Andrew Sayer - 2009 - Journal of Critical Realism 8 (1):113-123.
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