{"product_id":"realist-methodology-9781412948630","title":"Realist Methodology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wendy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRealism is an approach to humanity which recognizes the real existence of social objects as well as physical objects. It asserts that the things we are studying in social research have some prior existence and would continue to exist even if our knowledge of them was limited. While our knowledge may be wrong at times, realists assert that the real world will tend to constrain science so that wrong claims get challenged. This set includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eVolume 1: Practical Realist Ontology \u003c\/em\u003ewhich\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ecovers the nature of the world, the role of the person, the need for social theory, the nature of language, open systems theorizing, and the avoidance of the fallacies of upward and downward conflation. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVolume 2: Realist Methods \u003c\/i\u003etakes up the triangulation debate in some detail as well as querying the nature of quantitative data and of qualitative data. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVolume 3: Knowledge and Meta-knowledge in Realism \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the concept of epistemology and the social basis of human knowledge. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eVolume 4: Realist Empirical Research \u003c\/i\u003eruns through lessons to be learned from research that has been conducted under explicit realist assumptions in many disciplines in many different countries. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45457361240215,"sku":"9781412948630","price":58968.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781412948630.webp?v=1769293352","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/realist-methodology-9781412948630","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}