Call For Papers and PG Workshop Participants
Deadline 31 Jan. for Conf. 20-22 July 2016
International Association for Critical Realism (IACR)
19th Annual Conference
Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 July 2016
Pre-conference workshop: Monday 18 - Tuesday 19 July 2016
Postgraduate Teaching Centre, Cardiff Business School
Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU
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Rehumanising society and the social sciences?
The purpose of this conference is to explore how critical realism (CR) can contribute to rehumanising both society, and the social sciences. We welcome contributions from all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Equally welcome are contributions inspired by the various voices of CR, both within Bhaskar's philosophy (critical naturalism, dialectical critical realism, metaReality) and by the various authors who contributed to CR's flourishing.
Special Invitation from Wendy Olsen:
Some data confrontation workshops will be held as part of the IACR conference 2016 at Cardiff University Business School. You can apply to be part of the panel either by submitting an abstract, or by attending the conference. You will see examples of other people's data, and have a chance to discuss data interpretation from a realist point of view.
Panel Title: Empirical Research Via Critical Realism
Panel Abstract: Critical realism has many implications for data collection and analysis. For some scholars it implies a wholesale move from data-analysis toward integrated stakeholder analysis (phronesis or participatory research; Flyvberg). For others, it involves the critical assessment of data through theoretical lenses, and a strong realisation that the data one has are fallible and are socially constructed sets of symbols. Most realists also argue that the fieldwork experience has visceral and pre-cognitive effects on researchers. Furthermore we notice that collective and corporate agency is involved in data collection, making it a non-individualistic activity. Under these 3-4 circumstances, data analysis is likely to end up essentially contested. However, for us leading this panel, we consider empirical research as a useful, practical activity invoking high-level cognitive skills and applying key terms from the realist lexicon. Notable among these are: depth ontology, stratified reality, retroduction, emergent properties, weak social construction, structure, epiphenomenon (evidence which masks or misleads), and others. The panel stream, which takes places as a series of workshops with a high discussion content, already has some paper offers on wellbeing, capabilities, health, and socio-Economics.
We invite further offers of 90-minute sessions or individual papers within this panel. Perhaps on your PhD topic, your research topic, or on:
Digital Culture and the Social Life of People with Quantified Selves
Target Culture and the Use of Indicators in Social Research
Measurement Debates in Development Studies: RCTs and Impact
How Realists Approach a Systematic Review
OR Your Topic Here
The PreConference workshop is optional.
Message from Wendy Olsen, Room G20, Humanities Building
Professor of Socio-Economics
Social Statistics discipline at University of Manchester
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