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JOURNAL OF CRITICAL REALISM
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 1-24出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2021.1966719
关键词
Interview questions; applied critical realism; applied social realism; morphogenetic approach; research methods
The lack of methodical guidance for qualitative interviewing in empirical realist literature is identified, and a guiding framework is proposed to assist researchers in phrasing more appropriate interview questions in realist research. The framework, based on critical and social realist concepts and guided by methodological realist principles, aims to improve research transparency and lead to increased validity and replicability of mechanism-based theories in empirical realist research.
The tenets of critical and social realism are well supported in the literature. However, researchers following a realist paradigm have concerns about the lack of methodical guidance for qualitative interviewing, despite their affirmation about the importance of in-depth interviews. A conducted review of empirical realist literature provides evidence of an absence of guidance and commonality regarding interview planning practices. To overcome this absence, this paper composes a guiding framework to assist researchers to phrase more appropriate interview questions in realist research. The steps are founded on critical and social realist concepts while guided by methodological realist principles. Its contribution aims to not only improve the practice of realist inquiry methods but also to introduce more research transparency. A more transparent method for interview questions can lead to increased validity and afford replicability of mechanism-based theories resulting from empirical realist research.
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