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Critical realism - concepts, methodologies and current research
IACR Annual Conference 2006:
International Association for Critical Realism "Interdisciplinarity and intersubjectivity", University of Tromsø 11-13 August.
Read more: IACR 2006
PhD Course, August 8.-10. 2006:
Department of Education,
Department of Sociology
Department of Planning and Local Community Research
Teaching language: English
Academic coordinator: Tone Skinningsrud
Contact:
If you have any question, please contact
- Executive Officer Gunnlaug Staff Hermansen(E-mail: gunnlaug@psyk.uit.no) or
- Hege Folkedal (E-mail: hegef@sv.uit.no).
NB!The course is open to other applicants than doctoral students (e.g. researchers and Master level students) who can attend the course without earning credits. If you are interested in this, please send an e-mail to gunnlaug@psyk.uit.no before 1 August 2006.
Credits:
Participants in the course may earn 10, 5 or 3 ECTS- credits depending on their level of involvement in the course.
SVF-8026: Ten ECTS-credits require a paper of ca 15 pages.
SVF-8027: Five ECTS-credits require a paper of ca 5 pages.
SVF-8028: Three ECTS-credits require a 5 page resumé of what the student has learned in the course, focusing on one or a few specific aspects of particular interest.
Registration deadline: 20 June
The course has 3 different codes, depending on how many credits you want to earn:
10 ECTS = use the code SVF-8026.
5 ECTS = use the code SVF-8027
3 ECTS = use the code SVF-8028.
Please use the right code in the application form section 3 ("course"):
The application form in Norwegian
The application form in English
Send the application form to this address: SV-fakultetet UiTø, Gunnlaug Hermansen, 9037 Tromsø. (Or e-mail to: gunnlaug@psyk.uit.no )
Exam:
Those who register for SVF-8026 and SVF-8027 must submit papers in advance by e-mail within August 1st. (E-mail: gunnlaug@psyk.uit.no)
Each paper presentation in the course will be followed by a prepared opposition, which will point out potentials for improvement. Presenters will be granted three weeks after the course to revise their papers. Papers will be graded as pass/fail.
Contributors:
Roy Bhaskar, professor, University of Örebro, Sweden and the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Berth Danermark, professor, University of Örebro, Sweden.
Tony Lawson, reader, Cambridge University, UK.
Petter Næss, professor, Institut for samfundsudvikling og planlægning, Aalborg University, Denmark & NIBR, Oslo.
Alan Norrie, professor, Kings College, London, UK.
Mervyn Hartwig, editor, Journal of Critical Realism and Critical Realism Dictionary.
Gary MacLennan, senior lecturer, School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Neil Hockey, lecturer, School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Freddy Castro, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
Daniel Seldén, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
Ulla-Britt Wennerström, associate professor, Department of Sociology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
P. Stuart Robinson, associate professor, University of Tromsø
Program:
The course venue is room B-1004 (in map: 'B-fløy') at the Social Science Faculty, (in map: 'SV-fak'), University of Tromsø. Map
August 8th:
Roy Bhaskar: Critical realism and contemporary philosophies of social science
Kl. 09.15-11.00: Positivism, neo-kantianism, hermeneutics, social constructivism and post-modernism generally (including 15 min break)
Kl. 11.00- 11.30: Break
Kl.11.30- 1300: Principles of critical realism: ontological realism, epistemological relativism and judgemental rationalism
Kl. 1300- 1400: Lunch
Roy Bhaskar: Central concepts in critical realism
Kl. 14.00 - 15.00: Causality and emergence
Kl. 1500 - 15.15: Coffey/tea break
Kl. 15.15 - 15.45: Applied critical realism and laminated systems
Kl. 15.45 - 16.15: The Transformational Model of Social Activity
Kl. 1615 - 16.45: Dialectic
Kl. 16.45 - 17.15: Holism
Kl. 17.15 - 17.45: Meta-reality
August 9th:
Methodologies
09.15 - 10.00 Roy Bhaskar: Levels of theory and practice & four planar social being
10.00 - 10.15 Coffey/tea break
10.15 - 11.00 Tony Lawson: demi-regs and the contrast-method
11.00 - 11.15 Coffey/tea break
11.15 - 12.00 Alan Norrie: Research implications of dialectic
12.15 - 13.00 Neil Hockey: Research implications of the philosophy of meta-Reality
13.00 - 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 17.15 Paper presentations
13.45 - 14.15 Hubert Buch-Hansen: Beyond rationalism and constructivism: towards a critical realist intervention in EU studies
Commentator: Roy Bhaskar
14.15 – 14.45 Alaa Abd-Alaziz: Critical Realism Underlabouring Marxism: Reconstructing Interconnectedness and Exploring its Relevance in World Politics
Commentator: Roy Bhaskar
14.45 - 15.00 Coffey/tea break
15.00 – 15.30 Adel Daoud: Scarcity and Critical Realist Economics
Commentator: Tony Lawson
15.30 – 16.00 Pierre Engström: Discourse as Legitimacy Generating Mechanism: A critical realist view of Chilean poverty alleviating NGO
Commentator: Neil Hockey
16.00 – 16.15 Coffey/tea break
16.15 – 16.45 Göran Brante: Teachers’ Work
Commentator: Tone Skinningsrud
16.45 – 17.15 Anne Cecilie Bergene: Towards a critical realist comparative methodology: Context-sensitive comparison
Commentator: Tone Skinningsrud
August 10th:
Current areas of research
09.15 - 10.00 Roy Bhaskar & Berth Danermark: Interdisciplinarity & health
10.00 - 10.15 Break
10.15 - 10.45 Freddy Castro: Critical realism and the enlightenment
10.45 - 10.55 Break
10.55 - 11.25 Ulla-Britt Wennerström: Social mobility and the internal conversation
11.25 – 11.35 Break
11.35 – 12.05 Daniel Seldén: Anorexia
12.05 - 12.15 Break
12.15 – 12.45 Petter Næss: Social planning and the predictability of social behaviour
12.45 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 13.30 P. Stuart Robinson: The significance of gated communities for ‘the political’
13.30 - 13.40 Break
13.45 - 14.30 Gary MacLennan: Critical realist film theory
14.30 - 14.45 Break
14.45 - 15.30 Mervyn Hartwig: The project of the Dictionary of Critical Realism
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.15 Paper presentations
15.45 – 16.15 Piotr Cichocki: Is “internal conversation” the only mode of agency/structure mediation? On the double meaning og human agent’s reflexivity
Commentator: Roy Bhaskar
16.15 – 16.45 Terje Mesel: Hospital doctors as ethical subjects
Commentator: Freddy Castro
16.45 – 17.15 Inger-Lise Englund: Critical Realism and Medical Sociology – A Fruitful Relationship?
Commentator: Berth Danermark
General readings:
All the titles marked with an * will be available in a course compendium.
* Archer, Margaret S., Morphogenesis versus structuration on combining structure and action, In Christopher G. A. Bryant and David Jary (eds.) Anthony Giddens: Critical Assessments, Routledge, 1996, Vol 2, p. 25-52, 27 pages
* Archer, Margaret S., Social Integration and System Integration: developing the distinction, in Sociology, Vol 30, no 4, 1996, p. 679-699, 20 pages.
* Archer, Margaret S., Realism and the Problem of Agency, Journal of Critical Realism, vol 1, no 1, 2002, p. 11-20, 9 pages
* Bhaskar, Roy, A Realist Theory of Science, London: Verso, 1975/1998 (3rd ed), Introduction, p. 12-20, 9 pages.
Bhaskar, Roy, The Possibility of Naturalism, London: Routledge, 1975/1998 (3rd ed), chap 1, 2 & 4, p.1-79 and chap 4 [critique of Winch, hermeneutics, etc.]
* Bhaskar, Roy, Reclaiming Reality, London: Verso, 1989, Chap. 2 & 7 [on Rorty]
Bhaskar, Roy, General Introduction, in Archer et al., Critical Realism: Essential Readings, London: Routledge, 1998, p. ix-xxiv, 15 pages
Bhaskar, Roy, From Science to Emancipation, Sage, 2002, Preface, p. xi – xvi, Chap 1, p. 3- 46, 43 pages
Bhaskar, Roy, Reflections on Meta-Reality, Sage, 2002, Chap. 2 & 3, p. 69-165, 96 pages
Bhaskar, Roy & Alan Norrie, Introduction to Part IV: Dialectic and Dialectical Critical Realism, in Archer et al, Critical Realism. Essential Readings, London: Routledge, 1998, p. 561-574, 13 pages
* Bhaskar, Roy & Berth Danermark, Metatheory, Interdisciplinarity and Disability Research – A Critical Realist Perspective, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2006 (forthcoming), 17 pages
* Buch-Hansen, Hubert, Critical Realism in the Social Sciences: An Interview with Roy Bhaskar’, Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, October 2005, p. 59-69, 10 pages
Danermark et al, Explaining Society: Critical Realism in the Social Sciences, London & New York: Routledge, 2002, ca 300 pages
* Fleetwood, Steve, The ontology of organisation and management studies: a critical realist approach, Organization, Vol 12. no 2, 2005, pp. 197-222, 25 pages
Lawson, Tony, Economics and Reality, London: Routledge, 1997, chap 15; pp.199-226, 27 pages
Sayer, Andrew, Method in Social Science. A Realist Approach, London & New York: Routledge, 1992 (reprinted 1999), chap 3: pp.85-117 and chap 9: pp. 153-174, 53 pages
* Sayer, Andrew, System, Lifeworld and Gender: Associational Versus Counterfactual Thinking, in Sociology, Vol 34, No 4, 2000, pp. 707-725, 18 pages
Optional readings:
Archer, Margaret S., Process without system: Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu, in Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, XXIV, 1983, p. 196-221, 27 pages
Archer, Margaret S., Cross-national research and the analysis of educational systems, in M. L: Kohn (ed.) Cross-National Research in Sociology, Sage 1989, p. 242-262, 20 pages
Morén, Stefan & Björn Blom, Explaining Human Change: On Generative Mechanisms in Social Work Practice, Journal of Critical Realism, Vol 2, No 1, 2003, p. 37-60, 23 pages
Wennerström, Ulla-Britt, Den kvinnliga klassresan, [Women and social mobility] Göteborg Studies in Sociology No 19, 2003, Abstract, 2 pages
Næss, Petter, Prediction, Regression and Critical Realism, Journal of Critical Realism, Vol 2, no 2, 2004, pp.133-164, 31 pages
Sayer, Andrew, Class, Moral Worth and Recognition, Sociology, Vol 39, no 5, 2005, p. 947-963, 17 pages.
Skinningsrud, Tone, Realist Social Theorising and the emergence of state educational systems, Journal of Critical Realism, Vol 4, No 2, 2005, p. 339-365, 26 pages
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