… In this paper, I use the work of Sally Haslanger as an example of realist social … metaphysical
realism about social structures; (ii) that this type of metaphysical realism about the social …

… On the latter view, structure is so intimately bound up with agency that to accord the former
a … causal efficacy of social structure. Critical realists contend that although social structure is …

… definitions of social structure, namely, Harrk’s immanentist conception of structure as fluid
patterns of positioning and Bhaskar’s transcendentalist conception of structure as more static …

… social causes to the mental or to meanings. It is also what makes for social realism: we do
not uncover real social structures by interviewing people in-depth about them. 'So why be a …

… will not, of itself, enable us to choose between a conception which confines itself to the study
of individual actions and one which casts its explanations in terms of larger social structures…

… structures apart from social structures here, although I admit that cultural meanings form an
elemental part of social … 1995) has sought to theorize cultural structures from the critical realist …

… conceptualize social structure lead … social structure means or should mean, in the first part
of this paper I will simply present without argument four different conceptions of social structure …

… of structural realism in the social sciences: the ubiquitous appeal to “social structure” in the
social … is a meaningful sense in which social scientists explain by social structure alone—thus …

… split between social structures and literary structures. Reproducing … the realists for their
commitment to the representation of contemporary American social life often devalued the realists …

… , where social action was amenable to scientific analysis. Walker concluded that, without
dismissing the importance of social structures, it was vita] to give priority to the social practiccs …