Critical Realism

1. Emancipatory Social Practice.

2. Emphasis on Causality

3. Belief that an independent reality exists

4. Epistemological Dimension is Transitive

5. Quantitative

6. But impossible to full apprehend this reality

6.1. New node

7. Our knowledge of the world is mediated by discourses available to us

8. Three Modes of Reality

8.1. The Emperical

8.2. The Actual

8.3. The Real

9. Logic of Retroduction

10. Is a Meta-Theory - Ontological Position for Research

11. By Understanding Underlying Structures and Mechanisms

12. Mixed Methods of Data Gathering

13. Qualitative

14. Triangulation