The positive and the negative: assessing critical realism and social constructionism as post-positivist approaches to empirical research in the social sciences
The argument developed in this paper holds that critical realism is stronger than many other forms of post-positivism but that it is itself open to criticism. While critical realists are polemical about positivism they do share with positivism the concern positively to develop knowledge. This stands...
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International Migration Institute
2011
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