Wendy K. Olsen

Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research – Univ. of Manchester

Centre for Census & Survey Research (a research institute in the

Faculty of Social Sciences & Law, Dover Street NG14)

Manchester M13 9PL       Phone:   0044-161-275-3043

Fax 0044-161-275-4722

EMAIL:  wendy.olsen@man.ac.uk  Link here to Univ. Library; E-Journals; IACR.

Click here for initial versions of the Sri Lanka Papers | Wanna Do a PhD?  Contact me.

                 or see Panos Version (Click 'Latest Features')

Other Contact Numbers: phone:  07796-998293 fax: 0044-161-275-4722

IACR Conference & Introduction to Realism (With Sound and lecture notes (PDFs)!

The Association for Heterodox Economics holds ESRC funded Workshop on Methodology for Post-Graduate and Staff Researchers in the areas of institutional, feminist, marxist, IPE, and historical materialist economics!

E-mail me at: wendy.olsen@man.ac.uk or on wko2@tutor.open.ac.uk

I am currently an Associate Lecturer in Development Studies with the Open University (U213)

NOTE:  October 23-25, 2002 DSA Workshop with ESRC Funding:  Details here.

Below -- An image of dialectical change -- meant to stimulate critical thinking! (e.g. surely not all agents are individuals. . . they weren't just individuals in Genoa!)

¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ® Society ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ®

Socialization                                       Reproduction/Transformation

¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ® Individuals ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ¾ ® [time]

Figure 1: Bhaskar’s Model of the society/person connection.

Source: Archer, M., "Realism and Morphogenesis", ch. 14 in Archer, et al., eds. (1998) Critical Realism: Essential Readings, London: Routledge, p. 373. Originally published in Archer, M., Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach (1995) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 5.