Critical Realism for Health and Social Research (Paperback, 1)

1.Introduction.? 2.Coherence: The need to think about the whole.? 3.Critical realism and “the situated knowledges” methodology: Coherent and comprehensive positions in health and social research?? 4.Coherence and methodological issues specific for interdisciplinary research.? 5.Dialectical Critical Realism, Action Research and Social Work.? 6.The role of values in a critical realist perspective.? 7.Quality criteria in research: the empiricist approach and critical realism.? 8.Quality in critical realist qualitative research.? 9.Mechanism explanations in social research.? 10.Rethinking research on young adults’ labour market inclusion: a critical analysis of ambivalent outcome categories.? 11.Climate Change is Real: Critical Realism and the Unequal Social Impacts of Climate Change.? 12.Mixed methods research a strengthening of validity?? 13.Conclusion.