Examining family language policy through realist social theory

Examining Family Stress: Theory and Research

A Realist Social Theory of Information Systems

Rose, Jones and Truex (2005) (RST) call for a re-examination of the relationship between the IT artefact and the organization. This paper responds to that call. It first recognizes that existing approaches such as structuration theory (ST) and actor-network theory (ANT) have difficulties accommodating information systems within organizations and thus create issues in analyzing the relationship ...

Using Realist Social Theory to Explain Project Outcomes

In researching IS phenomena, many different theoretical lenses have been advanced. This paper proposes the use of Margaret Archer’s Morphogenetic Approach to Analytical Dualism (MAAD) as a social theoretic approach to explain why social phenomena may occur in a case study. This paper provides a brief overview to MAAD, providing a description of its tenets and methodology for use in an empirical...

Social Contagion Theory: Examining Dynamic Social Networks and Human Behavior

I reflect on the statistical methods of the Christakis-Fowler studies on network-based contagion of traits by checking the sensitivity of these kinds of results to various alternate specifications and generative mechanisms. Despite the honest efforts of all involved, I remain pessimistic about establishing whether binary health outcomes or product adoptions are contagious if the evidence comes ...

Realist Bundle Theory

1 that bears properties and individuates distinct particulars. However, most theorists agree that though it is possible that bearers are not individuators, considerations of simplicity favor identifying them. Tropes are often characterized as abstract particulars. This does not mean that tropes 2 are non-spatiotemporal, but, rather, that they cannot exist independently of the concrete particula...