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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Tác giả chính: Cruickshank, J
Định dạng: Working paper
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: International Migration Institute 2011
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