Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences

By Fieke Jansen. European Journal of Communication, 2020

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final three chapters, the approaches become more experimental and playful (especially in the case of the YouTube chapter), and the tools less well-established, perhaps testifying to new frontiers to be explored by digital methods, but also to an increasingly challenging access to data, treated by Rogers through his reflections on the development from the early DMI scraping techniques, to current reliance on APIs offered by platform owners. In the last chapter, Roger summarizes the merits of digital methods across thematical research areas and specific platforms and services. An essential read for students and scholars keen to learn the techniques of digital methods, while retaining strong emphasis on methodological reflection, critical assessment of ontological and epistemological implications of tools and data, the book is comprehensive and exemplary in its approach and guidance on doing digital methods research.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Emotional labour and emotional strain among Swedish prison officers (2011, methodology): “The methodological approach and research design of the project include both qualitative and quantitative methods (Danermark et al., 2002).”
Principles for Conducting Critical Realist Case Study Research in Information Systems (2012, background): “…2012 789 independent reality; a stratified ontology comprised of structures, mechanisms, events, and experiences; emergent powers dependent upon but not reducible to lower-level powers; and an open systems perspective (Bhaskar 1975, 1986, 1998; Collier 1994; Danermark et al. 2002; Sayer 1992).”
The capitalist labour process: Concepts and connections (2010, background): “Critical realists, referring to a distinctive social ontology, make a persuasive case that social scientists can only make claims about tendencies (Danermark et al., 2002).”
Beyond Measuring the Human Resources Management-Organizational Performance Link: Applying Critical Realist Meta-Theory (2006, background): “4 For an introduction to critical realism, see Ackroyd and Fleetwood (2000); Archer et al. (1998); Carter and New (2004); Danermark et al. (1997); Fleetwood and Ackroyd (2004); Lawson (1997, 2003); Reed (2001); and Sayer (1994, 2000).”
Methodological Implications of Critical Realism for Mixed-Methods Research (2013, methodology): “Theory generation in CR lies on the development of abstractions that hypothesize about and identify generative mechanisms (rather than regularities) that are observed in different contexts and are expressed by means of empirical categories—empirical generalizations (Danermark et al. 2002).”
A realist approach to thematic analysis: making sense of qualitative data through experiential, inferential and dispositional themes (2021, background): “Amidst ongoing calls for greater methodological border-crossing (Danermark, Ekström, and Karlsson 2019; Wiltshire 2018) as well as movements within contemporary policy environments that support it (McLeish 2016) it is likely than many researchers will find the ‘incompatibility’ framing of the…”