Introducing Critical Realism Workshop 1: Ontology
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ต.ค. 2021
- #1 of 6 videos in the Introducing Critical Realism for Social Research series.
Presented by Jack Newman and Caroline Kuhn, hosted by Gareth Wiltshire.
These introductory webinars were run in autumn 2021 by the digital presence working group of the Centre for Critical Realism. Each session includes an introductory discussion accompanied by a question and answer session with the live online audience. For more details see criticalrealismnetwork.org/wor...
As a beginner, just starting a Ph.D. and considering using CR, this is by far the most helpful thing I have found - looking forward to the whole series. Thanks so much for putting this together.
Friendship can not exist outside of people. It's a way of describing the thoughts and actions of two people.
That was a very rich, educative conversation. Thanks Team!
On reality and simulation: It may be possible to be living in a world that appears real (and may be), but think that that world isn't real and that living is being done in a simulation that makes the individual believe that s/he is living in a (or *the*) real world. And the contra may also be the case!
In general I feel this introduction is in need of concrete examples and case studies in which critical realist analysis is applied and modeled after
1:07:31 john vervaeke's notion of multiple realizability, plausibility, and logical equivalences provide a conceptual framework for triangulating reality
This was tremendously helpful! Thank you so much.
Well done, thank you!
Very interesting, thank you!
thanks so much for this content guys.
In the discussion of friendship, I'm surprised theres no reference to biology, namely, affective neuroscience or even the literature on the mother-child dyad which is perhaps the most empirically grounded causal explanation for the "realness" of a relational unit which we can loosely extrapolate to the existence of friendship. Not just as a social construct, but an autopoeitic organization that maintains itself in part due to the neurochemical bonds that persist and reproduce the conditions for its persistence.
I'm very glad to see these workshops start. I know it involves an incredible amount of background preparation and organisation. I will be linking students at my university studying Education and International Development and specialising in Education, Conflict and Peace and taking a module about this to this CR network. Thank you for all you are working to achieve. I strive to be a part of it.
I have introduced students at UCL-ioe Education. Conflict and Peace MA module a module offered by colleagues in the Education and International Development group to this excellent introductory CR course.
Increíble gracias 🙏🏼
"Not 100% sure" and "not really sure" are two different things
This was great! Thank you. How can we access the other lectures in the series?
Thanks Margaret. Full details of the series (and accompanying reading) can be found here: criticalrealismnetwork.org/workshops/?doing_wp_cron=1633974027.8198258876800537109375. I think that the workshops are fully booked for this semester, but we do hope to run the series again. Also, if all goes to plan, all six sessions will be uploaded to TH-cam.
Starts around 10:40
A sense of living in a simulation does not mean you ARE living in a simulation but you may be alerted to something that seems Off. Your perception of this is your reality.
What was the reference mentioned regarding reflexivity that we not only talk to ourselves but with others- The name was mentioned in addition to Margaret Archer (?Paulo Antoni?
There is not one reference in particular, but many have argued that what Archer calls 'inner conversation' should and indeed is not only an inner conversation but a bigger conversation with other people in the world. Sayer in his article acknowledges this clearly (Andrew Sayer (2009) Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. By Margaret S. Archer, Journal of Critical Realism, 8:1, 113-123 dx.doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v8i1.113) and also Burkitt addressed this limitation of Archer's concept in an article about relational agency (Burkitt, I. (2015) ‘Relational agency: Relational sociology; agency and interaction’, European Journal of Social Theory, 19(3), pp. 1-36. doi: 10.1177/1368431015591426.)
I hope that helps 🙂
[From Caroline Kuhn:] There is not one reference in particular, but many have argued that what Archer calls 'inner conversation' should and indeed is not only an inner conversation but a bigger conversation with other people in the world. Sayer in his article acknowledges this clearly (Andrew Sayer (2009) Making Our Way Through the World: Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility. By Margaret S. Archer, Journal of Critical Realism, 8:1, 113-123 dx.doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v8i1.113) and also Burkitt addressed this limitation of Archer's concept in an article about relational agency (Burkitt, I. (2015) ‘Relational agency: Relational sociology; agency and interaction’, European Journal of Social Theory, 19(3), pp. 1-36. doi: 10.1177/1368431015591426
Donati and Archer 'The Relational Subject' was mentioned
I have found this tutorial to be incredibly helpful. Is there a specific reference we can go to for the 'perceptual' and 'causal' criteria?
Thanks! Glad you found the video useful. Bhaskar first outlines the distinction between the real, actual, and empirical in 'A Realist Theory of Science' (1975). Easier introductions to these foundational CR ideas are in Andrew Collier's 'Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy' (1994) and Andrew Sayer's 'Realism and Social Science' (2000).
If you're looking for something more specific, let us know.