Slide 3

I wrote distance-learning materials that correspond to this lecture, and in particular to the lecture-segment presented here as an MP3 sound file. Bernhard Hack has kindly contributed to the production of the sound bite as CD Rom-based and Web-based virtual learning materials.  In addition Jonathon Sture was incredibly helpful in connection with compression of sound, so that lecture segments can be shared in this way.

                                                    Wendy Olsen

Click the terms at the bottom of this slide to see samples of the distance-learning materials.

We are extremely grateful to the authors listed below for their work, upon which the Realism Distance Learning materials were based.  The Distance Learning materials for this Module are Copyright University of Bradford (and authored by Wendy Olsen) and we would appreciate it if you would cite them as such if you quote from them.  However, similar arguments are set out in the books listed below:

Sayer, Andrew (2001) Realism in Social Science (London:  Sage).

Sayer, Andrew (1992) Method in Social Science:  A Realist Approach (London:  Routledge). (1st ed. was dated 1984)

Lawson, Tony (1997) Economics and Reality (London:  Routledge).

Smith, Mark J. (1998) Social Science in Question, ch. 7 (London:  Sage, in association with Open University Press).

DISTANCE LEARNING UNITS:

Unit 7:  Feminist Epistemological Arguments

Unit 8:  Realist Ontology and Realist Approaches

Unit 9:  Social Structures and Causal Mechanisms