فهرست مطالب افسانه زارعی دهباغی

The aim of this description-inductive study, is to draw forth implications for the purposes of scholarship in the social science based on critical realism with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. Critical realism, from an epistemological insight, is seen as the basis for scholarship references (teaching, research, application and integration) in social science. The results of this research indicate that critical realism, with its emphasis on mind-independent reality and the nature of the criticism of knowledge, focuses on an emancipator training in social science. In research, critical realism stresses philosophy and philosophical self-awareness. Therefore, social science researchers understand the hidden assumptions and outright lies in their own research better. In the field of integration, the emphasis is on understanding the reality on a large scale. Therefore, it recognizes the interdisciplinary science of knowledge and welcomes every science that can better explain and interpret the complex layers of reality. Thus, critical realism, in practice, has the potential to solve social problems thru its perspective on the science of integration. The reason for this is theorizing far from narrow-mindedness while, at the same time, in harmony with the critical realism. This is due to its critical nature which brings knowledge closer to practice.

The purpose of this research was the study of the philosophy of social science from the critical realism’s point of view and its role in the educational research. The main problem of this research was that considering the attitudinal difference of this viewpoint which is in the middle of the two spectrums of realism and anti-realism and special attention to the philosophy of social science, which attitudinal and functional changes will occur in the educational research? Overall, it was a qualitative research which started with qualitative content analysis of the authentic texts and then with inferring implications, the hints of this viewpoint for the research were extracted. Findings showed that the critical realism considers the distinction between the natural world and the social world justifiable and due to this, the social condition of actions and their structural background is of high importance in educational research. As a result, the interpretation of meaning distinct from the structure, unlike those who believe in hermeneutics, is unacceptable. Also in terms of epistemology, critical realism, on the one hand with reliance on the assumptions underlying positivism and on the other hand, with explanation of the features associated with the network of educational and social studies, considers mathematics as a powerful tool to identify the educational and social phenomena. And at the same time, it has a radical orientation toward building an all-round sensory experience and challenges the whole reliance on induction.