1st Edition
Critical Realism for Health and Social Research
Chapter One – Introduction
May-Britt Solem, Per Arne Tufte and Dag Jenssen
Chapter Two – Coherence: The need to think about the whole
Dag Jenssen
Chapter Three – Critical realism and “the situated knowledges” methodology: Coherent and comprehensive positions in health and social research?
May-Britt Solem
Chapter Four – Coherence and methodological issues specific for interdisciplinary research
Berth Danermark
Chapter Five – Dialectical critical realism, action research and social work
Stanley Houston
Chapter Six – The role of values in a critical realist perspective
Dag Jenssen
Chapter Seven – Quality criteria in research: The empiricist approach and critical realism
Knut-Andreas Christophersen and Per Arne Tufte
Chapter Eight – Quality in critical realist qualitative research
Kaja Larsen Østerud
Chapter Nine – Mechanism explanations in social research
Per Arne Tufte
Chapter Ten – Rethinking research on young adults’ labour market inclusion: a critical analysis of ambivalent outcome categories
Ivan Harsløf
Chapter Eleven – Climate change is real: Critical realism and the unequal social impacts of climate change
Amber J. Fletcher
Chapter Twelve – Mixed methods research a strengthening of validity?
May-Britt Solem
Chapter Thirteen – Conclusion
May-Britt Solem and Dag Jenssen
Biography
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.
