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Sociology's causal confusion

In Ruth Groff (ed.), Revitalizing causality: realism about causality in philosophy and social science. New York: Routledge (2008)

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  1. Causal Mechanisms, Job Search and the Labour Market Spatial Mismatch: A Realist Criticism of the Neo-positivist Method.Owen Crankshaw - 2014 - Journal of Critical Realism 13 (5):498-519.
    Many studies of the labour market spatial mismatch rely on the deductivenomological model of causation to test the theory that low-skilled, inner-city residents have been isolated from the knowledge of job opportunities by the suburbanization of jobs. The logic of this approach follows the deductivenomological model of explanation which establishes causation by measuring the constant conjunctions between ‘causes’ and ‘effects’. As an alternative, I have used a realist approach to the study of the labour market spatial mismatch that uses a (...)
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  • Identifying causal mechanisms that explain the emergence of the Modern Dutch State.Stephen Armet - 2013 - Journal of Critical Realism 12 (3):301-335.
    The purpose of this paper is to advance an analytical approach that systematically seeks to identify social mechanisms that generate and explain observed associations between events. In spite of recent contributions to animate the search for explanatory mechanisms, most of these monographs extol the theoretical while eschewing its application to applied research. This study emphasizes a systematic approach to identifying causal processes derived from critical realism by applying a realist template to research projects that claim to have identified causal mechanisms. (...)
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