Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 16:09:16 +0100 From: "karl.maton" <karl.maton-AT-pop.ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: BHA: Bhaskar-Callinicos debate Hi Mervyn, mike, et al, The underlabouring point raises a question that interests me about CR and its descendants, in particular about their (or its?) relations with existing disciplines (or knowledge structures, if your prefer). What do people make of the relation between CR (including realist social theory) and the existing knowledge structures (or disciplines or approaches or whatever). Would they see CR as being an underlabourer or as offering an approach of its own capable of replacing existing approaches. I mean, take Andrew Sayer's really nice book on Realism and Social Science - this uses Cr (by which I'm being very broad) to show how existing work and approaches and arguments are failing to be practically adequate. He does indeed clear up confusions (though not in the late Wittgensteinian linguistic philosophical way of saying it's all about not understanding how language works). That is one way of using CR fruitfully. But what about when using it as the basis of empirical research? For example, there's some brilliant approaches in sociology of education that are compatible with CR but which are not derived from RB or don't mention him. Yet these seem to be erased from the picture when realist social theory discussed education. That's just one example .... ... just a question to throw out .... and then watch as it comes back round like a frisbee and takes out one of my eyes! With best wishes, Karl WHEN REPLYING: PLEASE MAKE SURE MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS NO POP IN IT. Karl Maton School of Education, University of Cambridge Email: karl.maton-AT-ntlworld.com Email: matonianuk-AT-yahoo.co.uk URL: http://www.KarlMaton.com Correspondence address: 108 Avenue Road Extension, Leicester LE2 3EH, England. Tel: +44 (0) 116 220 1066 This is your life and its ending one minute at a time. --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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