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...

وصف كامل

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Cruickshank, J
التنسيق: Working paper
اللغة:English
منشور في: International Migration Institute 2011
الموضوعات: