Realist Biography and European Policy :
Realist Biography and European Policy : an Innovative Approach to European Policy Studies.
- Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
Foreword; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the Need for Realist Biography in European Policy Studies; 2. Realism and Social Research: A Morphogenetic Approach; 3. Biography-using Research (BNIM), Sostris, Institutional Regimes, and Critical Psycho-Societal Realism; 4. Biographical Costs of Transnational Mobility in the European Space; 5. Biographical Approach in the Study of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe. 6. Social Dialogue as a European Social Field: Setting up a "Critical Realist" Explanatory Framework of the Practices of the European Works Councils in Multinationals in Europe7. Biographies and the Drafting of EU Environmental Policy in an Anthropological Framework; 8. Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and Reflexivity; Contributors; Index.
The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of research. Realist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative methods as a concrete methodological approach. The main goal is to demonstrate that the combination of critical realism and biographical methods is not only possible, but it is exceptionally well suited for the exploration of newly emerging research fields within European policy studies. This volume offers new insig.
9789461661623 9461661622
22573/ctt14c4t6t JSTOR
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
Critical realism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Critical realism.
Economic policy--Evaluation.
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
European Union countries--Economic policy--Evaluation.
European Union countries.
Electronic books.
H61.29 .T384 2014
305.56094
Foreword; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the Need for Realist Biography in European Policy Studies; 2. Realism and Social Research: A Morphogenetic Approach; 3. Biography-using Research (BNIM), Sostris, Institutional Regimes, and Critical Psycho-Societal Realism; 4. Biographical Costs of Transnational Mobility in the European Space; 5. Biographical Approach in the Study of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe. 6. Social Dialogue as a European Social Field: Setting up a "Critical Realist" Explanatory Framework of the Practices of the European Works Councils in Multinationals in Europe7. Biographies and the Drafting of EU Environmental Policy in an Anthropological Framework; 8. Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and Reflexivity; Contributors; Index.
The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of research. Realist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative methods as a concrete methodological approach. The main goal is to demonstrate that the combination of critical realism and biographical methods is not only possible, but it is exceptionally well suited for the exploration of newly emerging research fields within European policy studies. This volume offers new insig.
9789461661623 9461661622
22573/ctt14c4t6t JSTOR
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
Critical realism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
Critical realism.
Economic policy--Evaluation.
Social sciences--Biographical methods.
European Union countries--Economic policy--Evaluation.
European Union countries.
Electronic books.
H61.29 .T384 2014
305.56094