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  1. Positioning positivism, critical realism and social constructionism in the health sciences: a philosophical orientation.Justin Cruickshank - 2012 - Nursing Inquiry 19 (1):71-82.
    CRUICKSHANK J. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 71–82 Positioning positivism, critical realism and social constructionism in the health sciences: a philosophical orientationThis article starts by considering the differences within the positivist tradition and then it moves on to compare two of the most prominent schools of postpositivism, namely critical realism and social constructionism. Critical realists hold, with positivism, that knowledge should be positively applied, but reject the positivist method for doing this, arguing that causal explanations have to be based not on (...)
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  • Reflections on Loughborough realism.Arthur Still - 2001 - History of the Human Sciences 14 (3):108-113.
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  • Relativism versus realism - all but a specious dichotomy.Fiona J. Hibberd - 2001 - History of the Human Sciences 14 (3):102-107.
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  • Social constructionism as cognitive science.Thomas E. Dickins - 2004 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 34 (4):333–352.
    Social constructionism is a broad position that emphasizes the importance of human social processes in psychology. These processes are generally associated with language and the ability to construct stories that conform to the emergent rules of "language games". This view allows one to espouse a variety of critical postures with regard to realist commitments within the social and behavioural sciences, ranging from outright relativism to a more moderate respect for the "barrier" that linguistic descriptions can place between us and reality. (...)
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  • The "boomerang" effect of radicalism in discursive psychology: A critical overview of the controversy with the social representations theory.Annamaria Silvana de Rosa - 2006 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 36 (2):161–201.
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