Interdisciplinary Research and Critical Realism – the Example of Disability Research
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The aim of the paper is to indicate a metatheoretical perspective on interdisciplinary research which includes some important ontological assumptions and its consequences for the interdisciplinary research practice. Interdisciplinary research can be characterised by its focusing on a complex problem and the aim of the research is to elaborate this problem. The presentation begins with a brief outline of critical realism. I will sketch five features of this approach and I will also try to show the implications of these features on how to look upon interdisciplinary research. The five features are (1) the stratified ontology, (2) the intransitive and intransitive dimension of reality, (3) causation in terms of generative mechanisms, (4) the importance of contextualisation, and (5) the empirical reality. The presentation is interfolied with examples from disability
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