Critical realism and systematic dialectics: a reply to Andrew Brown

Steve Fleetwood

Work, Employment & Society, 2014, vol. 28, issue 1, 124-138

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.

Keywords: abstraction; agents; emergence; hierarchization; mechanisms; ontology; stratification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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