Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown

Fleetwood, Steve

Abstract

In 'Approach with caution: critical realism in social research', Andrew Brown sets out a series of criticisms of critical realism from the perspective of systematic dialectics. This current article is one critical realist's reply to Brown. © The Author(s) 2013.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Sep 20, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 18, 2016
• Journal: Work, Employment and Society
• Print ISSN: 0950-0170
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 124-138
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017013501955
• Keywords: critical realism, systematic dialectics, agents, structures, mechanisms, ontology, stratification, emergence, abstraction, hierarchisation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/824088
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017013501955
• Contract Date: Sep 20, 2016