Realism and Complexity in Social Science
Realism and Complexity in Social Science Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. This forms the basis…
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Realism and Complexity in Social Science
Realism and Complexity in Social Science is an argument for a new approach to investigating the social world, that of complex realism. This forms the basis for the development of a complex realist foundation for social research, that utilises a number of new and novel approaches to investigation, alongside the more traditional corpus of quantitative and qualitative methods. Complex realism brings together a number of strands of thought, in scientific realism, complexity science, probability theory and social research methodology.It proposes that the reality of the social world is that it is probabilistic, yet there exists enough invariance to make the discovery and explanation of social objects and causal mechanisms possible.
Research examples are drawn from research in sociology, epidemiology, criminology, social policy and human geography.The book assumes
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