Critical Realism for Health and Social Research

Auteur

May-Britt Solem is Professor Emerita of Social Work at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. She is the editor of Critical Realism for Welfare Professions: Routledge (2017).

Dag Jenssen is Associate Professor of philosophy of science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.

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Résumé
This book, which is aimed at the health care and social work/care field, looks at the relationship between different levels of research projects.

Contenu

1.Introduction. 2.Coherence: The need to think about the whole. 3.Critical realism and the situated knowledges methodology: Coherent and comprehensive positions in health and social research? 4.Coherence and methodological issues specific for interdisciplinary research. 5.Dialectical Critical Realism, Action Research and Social Work. 6.The role of values in a critical realist perspective. 7.Quality criteria in research: the empiricist approach and critical realism. 8.Quality in critical realist qualitative research. 9.Mechanism explanations in social research. 10.Rethinking research on young adults' labour market inclusion: a critical analysis of ambivalent outcome categories. 11.Climate Change is Real: Critical Realism and the Unequal Social Impacts of Climate Change. 12.Mixed methods research a strengthening of validity? 13.Conclusion.