Critical Realism for Health and Social Research

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: May-Britt (Oslo and Akershus University Col Solem
• Assisted by: Dag Jenssen (Editor), May-Britt Solem (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032639123
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263912-3
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social Work, Public health & preventive medicine, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, Public health and preventive medicine