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Social Causation and Biographical Research - Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments (Paperback)
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Social Causation and Biographical Research - Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
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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 relational
social ontology can become a unique theoretical ground for tapping
emergent mechanisms and latent meaning structures. Through an
account of the reasons for which reductionist epistemologies,
rational action models and covering law explanations are not
appropriate for biographical research, the authors develop the
philosophical idea of singular causation as a means by which
biographical researchers are able to forge causal hypotheses for
the occurrence of events and offer guidance on the application of
this methodological principle to concrete, empirical examples. As
such, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social
sciences with interests in biographical research and social
research methods.
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