What are 'gay genes' and are they real? This article looks at key research into these hypothesized gay genes, made possible, in part, by the Human Genome Project. I argue that the complexity of both genetics and human sexuality demands a truly critical approach: one that takes into account feminist epistemologies of science and queer approaches to the body, while putting into conversation resou...

This paper seeks to provide an extended critical overview of crucial issues and dilemmas within contemporary social thought, as well as within the wide field of social science theory and methodology. In this context, it offers some necessary theoretical stimulations and perspectives to re-think seriously and imaginatively and to re-decide about the persistent, complicated, ambiguous and highly ...

Many recent articles from within the information systems (IS) arena present an old-fashioned view of realism. For example, Iivari, Hirschheim, and Klein (1998) saw classical realism as seeing “data as describing objective facts, information systems as consisting of technological structures (‘hardware’), human beings as subject to causal laws (determinism), and organizations as relatively stable...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines have been a popular tool for the improvement of health care through the implementation of evidence from systematic research. Yet, it is increasingly clear that knowledge alone is insufficient to change practice. The social, cultural, and material contexts within which practice occurs may invite or reject innovation, complement or inhibit the activities re...

We develop a methodological framework to process theories on routines by leveraging large volumes of digital trace data following critical realism principles. Our begins with collecting and preprocessing data, corresponding the empirically observed experience realism. In second third steps framework, we identify finite set similar repetitive patterns (routines) through computational analysis. a...

In this wide-ranging interview, Dave Elder-Vass discusses his main contributions to critical realist theory over two decades. the first half, he explains early work on emergence, agency, structure, concept of culture and norm circles, as well a broad array social theorists positions. Sometimes has involved differences with other realists, including Tony Lawson, Margaret Archer, Alison Sealey Bo...