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A Realist Theory of Science
By Roy Bhaskar


 


Summary: the Basic Text on Critical Realism
Rating: 5

If you REALLY want to understand Critical Realism, you have to read this book. Now be warned that it is a difficult read for those without a philosophical background. You will have to reread sections of it several times and it will take you a while to get it. Especially because it is a paradigm shift from what you are thinking now.

If you want to start with something less challenging, you might start with Collier's introduction to Bhaskar's thought.



Summary: Don't Read This Book Unless If You're Going For PhD
Rating: 2

This book is the source of a distinct paradigm in management research. The author raised many issues related to the assumptions that had been used as a basis for positivism, and suggests new approach of what he called realist science.

I can bet that 99% of normal people will find this book a mental torture, very few will ever proceed beyond page 2 of this book. If you imagine a long bearded person with long hair, sitting in a room full of books and muttering to himself of something totally incomprehensible while jotting something in a book, THIS is exactly the kind of book that you are going to read. In short, stay away unless if you have a commitment to enhance your knowledge in the philosophy of social science, which is not typical unless if you're enrolled in the first year PhD in Management. Good luck!