Giorgos Tsiolis, Michalis Christodoulou

Social Causation and Biographical Research (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing reconstructive biographical research into dialogue with critical realism, this book argues that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining how and why things in social and personal lives are one way and not another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000260670
• Artikelnr.: 60308553

Autorenporträt

Giorgos Tsiolis is Associate Professor of Qualitative Methods in Sociological Research and currently Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete, Greece.

Michalis Christodoulou teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece. He is the co-editor of Emotions, Temporalities and Working-Class Identities in the 21st Century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Singular causation and biographical research 2.
Philosophical arguments on social causality: Cases of reductionism 3.
Critical realism: Causal mechanisms as emergent powers 4. Causal
explanation as process tracing 5. Relating cases with phenomena: Arguments
for generalizing through mechanisms 6. The relational subject and latent
meaning structures 7. Why the temporal is causal 8. Case reconstruction and
relational mechanisms in biographical research practice 9. Epilogue:
Summarizing the argumentation

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1. Introduction: Singular causation and biographical research 2. Philosophical arguments on social causality: Cases of reductionism 3. Critical realism: Causal mechanisms as emergent powers 4. Causal explanation as process tracing 5. Relating cases with phenomena: Arguments for generalizing through mechanisms 6. The relational subject and latent meaning structures 7. Why the temporal is causal 8. Case reconstruction and relational mechanisms in biographical research practice 9. Epilogue: Summarizing the argumentation