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Realism is an approach thumanity which recognizes the real existence of social objects as well as physical objects Thus realism does involve being realistic But more importantly, it asserts that the things we are studying in social research have some prior existence and would continue texist even if our knowledge of them was limited Indeed, sometimes our knowledge is quite wrong, and realists assert that the real world will tend tconstrain science sthat wrong claims get challenged In this set, you will find:Volume 1: Practical Realist Ontology which covers the nature of the world, the role of the person, the need for social theory, the nature of language, open systems theorizing, and the avoidance of the fallacies of upward and downward conflation Volume 2: Realist Methods takes up the triangulation debate in some detail as well as querying the nature of quantitative data and of qualitative data Volume 3: Knowledge and Meta-knowledge in Realism explores the concept of epistemology and the social basis of human knowledge Volume 4: Realist Empirical Research runs through lessons tbe learned from research that has been conducted under explicit realist assumptions in many disciplines in many different countries
