Realist Approach
WOMEN CHARACTERS IN AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORIES AS SEEN FROM THE AUTHENTIC REALIST APPROACH
... Realism approach in five Australian short stories by Julie Keyes, Judith Ebun, Jess Roberts, Airdre Grant, and Margot Titcher, to which an authentic realist reader would ...authentic realist ...
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A realist approach to the evaluation of complex mental health interventions
... Evidence-based policy and practice is firmly established in mental health care, bringing with it a need for evidence to be critically appraised. The conventional biomedical view sees randomised controlled trials (RCTs) ...
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A realist approach to the evaluation of complex mental health interventions
... dependent interventions, of the type which are common in mental health care. By focusing on causal mechanisms and adopting a more pragmatic attitude to evidence, approaches based on realism offer potential for creating ...
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Causal Depth contra Humean Empiricism: Aspects of a Scientific Realist Approach to Explanation
... dual-dual approach can be integrated with migration and various shocks that are important features of the urbanization process in developing ...neoclassical approach can ...economy approach can ...
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Bringing critical realism to Nursing Practice:Roy Bhaskar's Contribution
... a realist evaluation of intermediaries in infection prevention, Williams (2014), a nurse researcher, found that applying the realist lens illuminated the nature of the work of nurse intermediaries in a ...
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Transformation of the World Order from Unipolar System to a Multipolar One: Some Theoretical Analyses
... the realist approach, especially the neorealist approach, of international relations and security as well as by investigating two relevant case ...
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Can “realist” randomised controlled trials be genuinely realist?
... a realist approach to research, as we will describe ...the approach to realist research developed by Pawson and Tilley [3]—and the extent to which its logic becomes subverted when merged with ...
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Policymakers’ experience of a capacity-building intervention designed to increase their use of research: a realist process evaluation
... a realist analysis of how a novel, multi- component intervention trial designed to increase research use capacity, known as the Supporting Policy In health with Research: an Intervention Trial (SPIRIT), functioned ...
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A time-responsive tool for informing policy making: rapid realist review
... traditional realist review methods high- lights several strengths of the RRR ...to realist reviews more generally, the RRR method is time efficient, and may in fact be more amenable to time limi- tations ...
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Developing a critical realist positional approach to intersectionality
... philosophical underpinnings of the various approaches have neither been clearly elucidated nor subject to critique. Drawing upon the philosophy of critical realism, this article will explore the philosophical roots of ...
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Exploring the use of Soft Systems Methodology with realist approaches
... funded realist synthesis of workforce development interventions, what works, how and under which contexts, to improve the skills and care standards of support workers in older people's health and care services ...
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Introduction to the special issue : applied critical realism in the social sciences
... critical realist approach to the study of marketing systems; one which they feel is more likely to overcome the problem of the externalities of ‘marketization’ that result in degraded ecosystems and ...
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Football and social inclusion: evaluating social policy
... absenteeism. Realist evaluation can contribute to this kind of theory development by building up a series of ‘context-mechanism-outcome’ configurations around ...[realist] approach to evaluation and ...
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Market forms and market models
... However Critical Realists acknowledge that the relationship between the internal contingent and the focal level model entities is by no means straightforward. In general entities can be analysed at a number of different ...
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An argument by analogy for a presentist solution to McTaggart's paradox
... I say forgivable in motivation because, as we have suggested, (TA) is associated with good realist practice; with the desire to ground truth in mind-independent reality, rather than letting it run away with ...
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Towards a Realist Criminology: Review of Roger Matthews (Editor) What Is to Done about Crime and Punishment? Towards a “Public Criminology” London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
... Ben Bowling (from King’s College, London) and his colleagues focus on po- licing, from their experience of Britain and Canada. Police, as Maurice Punch argued are “a secret social service”, concerned as much with helping ...
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Global Strategic Studies: A Manifesto
... Not only in Strategic Studies but in the wider fi eld of international relations there has been a debate to what extent the scholarship has divorced itself from practical relevance and gone o ff into the purely theoretical ...
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6005.pdf
... The aim of the three papers collected in this dissertation has been to present a realist epistemology of science. The first paper argued that one should accept a scientific theory, for explanatory and predictive ...
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Research proposal: Philip Benton
... positivist approach comes from the view that the world is too complex to be reduced to a series of generalised laws and theories (Saunders et al, ...constructionism approach argues that the researcher ...
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An argument in defence of scientific realism
... an approach ignores the persistent fact that different scientists often utilize the same laws or exemplar, yet subscribe to radically different ontology and ...
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