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The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of researchRealist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative methods as a concrete methodological approach. The main goal is to demonstrate that the combination of critical realism and biographical methods is not only possible, but it is exceptionally well suited for the exploration of newly emerging research fields within European policy studies.This volume offers new insights to and is an indispensable reference for researchers in search of solid underpinnings for their own empirical research. Foreword by Miriam Kennet, Director of the Green Economics Institute, Founder and Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Tatiana Bajuk Senčar (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology), Bob Carter (University of Leicester, Department of Sociology), Prue Chamberlayne (Open University, Faculty of Health and Social Care), Markieta Domecka (independent researcher), Norbert Kluge (coordinator and adviser for the European Works Council of ThyssenKrupp AG), Lyudmila Nurse (director of Oxford XXI), Elisabetta Perone (University of Naples Federico II), Valeria Pulignano (Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven), Antonella Spanò (University of Naples Federico II), Tom Wengraf (Middlesex University)
Jeffrey Turk is a physicist and European scholar at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and currently affliated with the Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven.Adam Mrozowicki is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Wroclaw (Poland).
List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: the Need for Realist Biography in European Policy StudiesAdam Mrozowicki, Jeffrey David Turk & Markieta Domecka2. Realism and Social Research: A Morphogenetic ApproachBob Carter3. Biography-using Research (BNIM), Sostris, Institutional Regimes, and Critical Psycho-Societal RealismTom Wengraf with Prue Chamberlayne4. Biographical Costs of Transnational Mobility in the European SpaceAntonella Spanà², Elisabetta Perone & Markieta Domecka5. Biographical Approach in the Study of Identities of Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe Lyudmila Nurse6. Social Dialogue as a European Social Field: Setting up a “Critical Realist” Explanatory Framework of the Practices of the European Works Councils in Multinationals in EuropeValeria Pulignano & Norbert Kluge7. Biographies and the Drafting of EU Environmental Policy in an Anthropological FrameworkTatiana Bajuk SenÄar & Jeffrey David Turk8. Linking Structural and Agential Powers: A Realist Approach to Biographies, Careers and ReflexivityMarkieta Domecka & Adam MrozowickiContributorsIndexList of FiguresFigure 1.1 Realist science: checking knowledge against the worldFigure 8.1 C areer patterns in workers' and business milieus and the types of reflexivityList of TablesTable 3.1 I llustration of the twin tracks and three columns of the BNIM methodTable 5.1 S ummary of the biographical cases Table 6.1 S ummary of the type and content of EWCs practices
In Realist Biography and European Policy, the editors are to be congratulated for putting forward a cogent case for the strength of the Critical Realist paradigm as a principle underlying sound research methodology.Robert L. Miller, Queen's University of BelfastThe work is at the leading edge of international (European) scholarship in the fields of biographical research and its application to questions of European policy.Howard Davis, Bangor University
