Critical realism in empirical research: employing techniques from grounded theory methodology
Critical realism in empirical research: employing techniques from grounded theory methodology
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DOI：
10.1080/13645579.2018.1503400
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发表时间：
2019-01-02
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Hoddy, Eric T.
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作者：
Hoddy, Eric T.
虽然批判现实主义（CR）正被公认为社会科学的重要元理论，但关于如何产生与其本体论和认识论假设相一致的研究的指导很少。本文借鉴了一个定性研究的例子，对如何应用社会责任进行了讨论，该研究试图理解和解释突尼斯农村劳动者群体未满足需求的原因。以本研究为例，我展示了如何在采用CR哲学和方法论框架的研究项目的数据收集、编码和分析阶段有效地利用扎根理论方法中的技术。我说明了扎根理论的“溯因”变体如何允许在整个研究阶段利用已有的理论知识；而开放和轴向编码技术可用于识别和假设CR因果机制。这篇文章应该感兴趣的学生和研究人员参与扎根理论和应用批判现实主义。
Whilst critical realism (CR) is becoming recognised as a significant meta-theory for the social sciences, there is little guidance on how to produce research which is consistent with its ontological and epistemological assumptions. This article contributes to an emerging discussion about how CR can be applied, drawing on an example of a qualitative study that has sought to understand and explain the causes of unmet need amongst a group of rural labourers in Tunisia . Using this study as an illustration, I show how techniques from grounded theory methodology can be usefully harnessed in the data collection, coding and analysis stages of a research project that adopts a CR philosophical and methodological framework. I illustrate how an 'abductive' variant of grounded theory allowed drawing on pre-existing theoretical knowledge throughout the research stages; whilst open and axial coding techniques could be harnessed for identifying and postulating CR causal mechanisms. This article should be of interest to students and researchers involved with grounded theory and applied critical realism.