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Rebutting the Suggestion that Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory Offers a Useful Framework for Sociological Nursing Research: a Critique Based upon Margaret Archer's Realist Social Theory

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Lipscomb, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7329-9221 (2006) Rebutting the Suggestion that Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory Offers a Useful Framework for Sociological Nursing Research: a Critique Based upon Margaret Archer's Realist Social Theory. Nursing Philosophy, 7 (3). pp. 175-180. ISSN Online: 1466-769X

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Abstract

A recent paper in this journal by Hardcastle et al. in 2005 argued that Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory (ST) might usefully inform sociological nursing research. In response, a critique of ST based upon the Realist Social Theory of Margaret Archer is presented. Archer maintains that ST is fatally flawed and, in consequence, it has little to offer nursing research. Following an analysis of the concepts epiphenomenalism and elisionism, it is suggested that emergentist Realist Social Theory captures or describes a more coherent explanatory vision of social reality than other perspectives and nurse researchers are advised to consider its potential.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Staff and students at the University of Worcester can access the full-text via Library Search. External users should check availability with their local library or Interlibrary Requests Service.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	nursing research, ontology, realism, Realist Social Theory, sociology, Structuration Theory
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RT Nursing
Divisions:	College of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Related URLs:	Publisher http://librarysearch.worc.ac.uk/ http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/2945/
Depositing User:	Martin Lipscomb
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2015 13:21
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:08
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3946

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