Critical Realism

1. Qualitative

2. Triangulation

3. Emancipatory Social Practice.

4. Mixed Methods of Data Gathering

5. Quantitative

6. By Understanding Underlying Structures and Mechanisms

7. Emphasis on Causality

8. Epistemological Dimension is Transitive

9. Logic of Retroduction

10. Three Modes of Reality

10.1. The Emperical

10.2. The Actual

10.3. The Real

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

12. Belief that an independent reality exists

13. But impossible to full apprehend this reality

13.1. New node

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