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Title Realist Biography and European Policy : an Innovative Approach to European Policy Studies
Published Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
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Subject 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
SUBJECT European Union countries -- Economic policy -- Evaluation
Subject European Union countries
Form Electronic book
Author Turk, Jeffrey David
Mrozowicki, Adam
ISBN 9789461661623
9461661622