The method of biographical story-telling applied to newly emerging fields of research
Realist 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 Sencar (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 Spano (University of Naples Federico II), Tom Wengraf (Middlesex University)

About the Author
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).

Reviews

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 Belfast

The 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

Book Information
ISBN 9789058679710
Author Jeffrey David Turk
Format Paperback
Imprint Leuven University Press
Publisher Leuven University Press
Weight(grams) 369g