Lydia Wysocki
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781496828996
- eISBN:
- 9781496829047
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496828996.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter uses three examples of “British comics” taken from a larger empirical project about the connection between comics and discourses of “Britishness,” and aligns these with a Critical ...
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This chapter uses three examples of “British comics” taken from a larger empirical project about the connection between comics and discourses of “Britishness,” and aligns these with a Critical Realist framework. These are: the normalization of hate in MAC’s Daily Mail cartoon, marginalization in Beano’s "Ball Boy,” and (parodies of) stereotypes in Tillotson and Brookes’ The Manly Boys Annual and Comely Girls Annual. This advances and uses specific social science theoretical and analytical tools for understanding comics as material culture. As such, in the later part of this chapter I make explicit a wider conceptual framework based in sociocultural theory, using this to show how the study of comics can approach larger questions of representation and identity formation.Less
This chapter uses three examples of “British comics” taken from a larger empirical project about the connection between comics and discourses of “Britishness,” and aligns these with a Critical Realist framework. These are: the normalization of hate in MAC’s Daily Mail cartoon, marginalization in Beano’s "Ball Boy,” and (parodies of) stereotypes in Tillotson and Brookes’ The Manly Boys Annual and Comely Girls Annual. This advances and uses specific social science theoretical and analytical tools for understanding comics as material culture. As such, in the later part of this chapter I make explicit a wider conceptual framework based in sociocultural theory, using this to show how the study of comics can approach larger questions of representation and identity formation.
Priscilla Alderson
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781447354550
- eISBN:
- 9781447354574
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447354550.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Critical realism, a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend, clarify and validate their work. Critical realism resolves problems and contradictions between quantitative factual ...
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Critical realism, a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend, clarify and validate their work. Critical realism resolves problems and contradictions between quantitative factual research and qualitative interpretive approaches. It draws on their strengths, overcomes their limitations, and helps to connect research to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from researchers and students, the book shows how versatile critical realism can be in research across the life course and around the world, from small studies to large trials. Healthcare, health promotion and heath inequalities are all addressed. This book is based on the course at University College London, first taught by Roy Bhaskar the founder of critical realism, and later convened by the author. The aim is to help readers who are new to critical realism, or are in the fairly early stages, with their research across the whole range of health and illness disciplines and professions. Chapters consider relations between structure and agency, facts and values, and between visible evidence and mainly unseen powerful influences on health and illness. Using clear definitions, diagrams and examples, this book enables readers to understand and apply valuable critical realist concepts to health and illness research.Less
Critical realism, a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend, clarify and validate their work. Critical realism resolves problems and contradictions between quantitative factual research and qualitative interpretive approaches. It draws on their strengths, overcomes their limitations, and helps to connect research to policy and practice. To meet growing demand from researchers and students, the book shows how versatile critical realism can be in research across the life course and around the world, from small studies to large trials. Healthcare, health promotion and heath inequalities are all addressed. This book is based on the course at University College London, first taught by Roy Bhaskar the founder of critical realism, and later convened by the author. The aim is to help readers who are new to critical realism, or are in the fairly early stages, with their research across the whole range of health and illness disciplines and professions. Chapters consider relations between structure and agency, facts and values, and between visible evidence and mainly unseen powerful influences on health and illness. Using clear definitions, diagrams and examples, this book enables readers to understand and apply valuable critical realist concepts to health and illness research.
Graham Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198785798
- eISBN:
- 9780191827617
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198785798.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The chapter constructs a theory of capitalist development based on a distinction between capital-ascendant and capital-dominant countries. It makes this analytical separation by distinguishing real, ...
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The chapter constructs a theory of capitalist development based on a distinction between capital-ascendant and capital-dominant countries. It makes this analytical separation by distinguishing real, actual, and empirical levels in a political economy. The real level identifies the essential underlying processes in developing and developed countries. These distinct ‘realities’ generate different kinds of actual and empirical phenomena that can be observed in differential rates of growth, poverty, productivity, life expectancy, or literacy. Across all of these observable phenomena, a general real distinction between ascendant and dominant pertains. The chapter makes this argument using critical realist and Marxist political economy. It then finishes with a review of critical development theory and its historical methods in order to identify the chapter’s own framework and its merits.Less
The chapter constructs a theory of capitalist development based on a distinction between capital-ascendant and capital-dominant countries. It makes this analytical separation by distinguishing real, actual, and empirical levels in a political economy. The real level identifies the essential underlying processes in developing and developed countries. These distinct ‘realities’ generate different kinds of actual and empirical phenomena that can be observed in differential rates of growth, poverty, productivity, life expectancy, or literacy. Across all of these observable phenomena, a general real distinction between ascendant and dominant pertains. The chapter makes this argument using critical realist and Marxist political economy. It then finishes with a review of critical development theory and its historical methods in order to identify the chapter’s own framework and its merits.
Jane Ribbens McCarthy
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781447304432
- eISBN:
- 9781447307884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447304432.003.0026
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This chapter places at its heart the inescapably moral nature of the issues at stake in considering family troubles, in a wide-ranging discussion drawing on sociology, philosophy, political theory ...
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This chapter places at its heart the inescapably moral nature of the issues at stake in considering family troubles, in a wide-ranging discussion drawing on sociology, philosophy, political theory and anthropology. Making meaning of family troubles is an existential challenge that faces all who experience them, and those meanings may be shaped by interpersonal, material and cultural contexts (including the available narratives for explaining suffering and the relative value placed on autonomy, community and/or divinity in different societies). The chapter explores the processes involved, highlighting the contests that may arise over meaning between different participants and stakeholders, and then goes on to take up the challenge of debating whether, despite the particularity of meanings in contexts, any universalizing principles can be brought to the task of setting boundaries between the ‘normal’ and the ‘troubling’ in family life. Four perspectives are considered: a critical realist approach from sociology; an international legal approach framed as ‘rights’; an anthropological perspective on non-uniform universality; and a form of feminist philosophy framed as an ethic of care, each of which is argued to offer a useful reference point in necessarily ongoing debates, enabling dialogue about the gains and losses associated with them.Less
This chapter places at its heart the inescapably moral nature of the issues at stake in considering family troubles, in a wide-ranging discussion drawing on sociology, philosophy, political theory and anthropology. Making meaning of family troubles is an existential challenge that faces all who experience them, and those meanings may be shaped by interpersonal, material and cultural contexts (including the available narratives for explaining suffering and the relative value placed on autonomy, community and/or divinity in different societies). The chapter explores the processes involved, highlighting the contests that may arise over meaning between different participants and stakeholders, and then goes on to take up the challenge of debating whether, despite the particularity of meanings in contexts, any universalizing principles can be brought to the task of setting boundaries between the ‘normal’ and the ‘troubling’ in family life. Four perspectives are considered: a critical realist approach from sociology; an international legal approach framed as ‘rights’; an anthropological perspective on non-uniform universality; and a form of feminist philosophy framed as an ethic of care, each of which is argued to offer a useful reference point in necessarily ongoing debates, enabling dialogue about the gains and losses associated with them.
