Critical Realism for Health and Social Research -

Critical Realism for Health and Social Research

May-Britt Solem, Dag Jenssen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
202 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-63912-3 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book, which is aimed at the health care and social work/care field, looks at the relationship between different levels of research projects.

As the social sciences can be based on quite different assumptions or "philosophies2 about what the social world is like and how knowledge about it can be obtained, this book will help students navigate the need for consistency between empirical work, the research question, research design, values, and philosophy of science.

Based on a critical realist perspective the book seeks to elucidate and to reflect on such connections, and to argue for the requirements of coherence as well as taking a critical look at the dilemmas that arise in health and social care/work research.

Comprised of 13 chapters which cover theoretical frameworks, research questions, objectives of the study, research ethical considerations, values, and the question of validity, it shows how these must be interlinked if a project is to have a good design.

It will be of interest to researchers, PhD candidates and master's students in the field of health care and social work/care.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.12.2024
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Sozialpädagogik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10 1-032-63912-1 / 1032639121
ISBN-13 978-1-032-63912-3 / 9781032639123
Zustand Neuware
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