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Social Causation and Biographical Research: Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments book cover

1st Edition

Social Causation and Biographical Research Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments

By Giorgos Tsiolis, Michalis Christodoulou Copyright 2021
128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

128 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining why things in social and personal lives are one way and not another. Bringing reconstructive biographical research into dialogue with critical realism, it explains how and why... Read more

1. Introduction: Singular causation and biographical research

2. Philosophical arguments on social causality: Cases of reductionism

3. Critical realism: Causal mechanisms as emergent powers

4. Causal explanation as process tracing

5. Relating cases with phenomena: Arguments for generalizing through mechanisms

6. The relational subject and latent meaning structures

7. Why the temporal is causal

8. Case reconstruction and relational mechanisms in biographical research practice

9. Epilogue: Summarizing the argumentation

Biography

Giorgos Tsiolis is Associate Professor of Qualitative Methods in Sociological Research and currently Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete, Greece.

Michalis Christodoulou teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He is the co-editor of Emotions, Temporalities and Working-Class Identities in the 21st Century.

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