Critical Realism

1. Emancipatory Social Practice.

2. Emphasis on Causality

3. Epistemological Dimension is Transitive

4. Quantitative

5. Three Modes of Reality

5.1. The Emperical

5.2. The Actual

5.3. The Real

6. Logic of Retroduction

7. By Understanding Underlying Structures and Mechanisms

8. Mixed Methods of Data Gathering

9. Qualitative

10. Triangulation

11. Belief that an independent reality exists

12. But impossible to full apprehend this reality

12.1. New node

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

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