Critical Realism: Essential Readings (Ontological Explorations

by Margaret S. Archer, Alan Norrie, Roy Bhaskar

This reader is designed to make accessible in one volume, to lay person and academic, student and teacher alike, key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism.

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

784 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 1998

About the author

Margaret Scotford Archer was an English sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick.

Reviews

[Trashy Pit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome. The bible of Realist Philosophical Thought.

[Medhat Ullah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Margaret theoretical acumen has sculpted a more nuanced vision of the interrelationship between structure and agency. The philosophical synthesis in her work, particularly in the Theory of Structure (1995), invites a profound reconsideration of how societal structures and individual agency are ontologically and epistemologically interwoven, while maintaining an unwavering commitment to Bhaskar’s ontological realism.Exemplifying categorical distinctive synthesis of pre-obfuscated structure of "analytical dualism",a conceptual scaffold of "agency-structure relations".Central to Archer’s theory is her distinctive approach to the morphogenesis/morphostasis framework, wherein she meticulously dissects the dynamic processes through which social structures are both reproduced (morphostasis) and transformed (morphogenesis) over time.Got a nuanced & theoretical, almost logorrheic.