Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 479)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 479)

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CONCLUSIONS
In producing this thesis I have attempted to make a
methodological intervention into the debates around some key
concepts of Marxist discourse, particularly those debates
dominated by rationalist epistemology and global
structuralism (or Marxist General Theory). While many of the
substantive texts produced by the rationalist tradition are
wonderfully rich works of synthesis and are extremely complex
and multifaceted in terms of the levels of determination they
bring out in the social formation, they suffer from one major
weakness which may be taken as an indictment of their
under lying project. The substantive content of their
discourse is nearly all derived from other studies and very
seldom contains original empirical] research.
Moreover, the studies which they utilise are most often
produced within a completely different problematic and indeed
very often within the bete noire of rationalism: empiricism.
In this intellectual division of labour it looks like _ the
empiricist researcher is playing the role of under-labourer
to the rationalist/theorist journeywo/man. The
methodological core of a text constructed in such a manner
will always remain epistemologically and methodologically
contradictory and grounded in juxtaposition rather than on
logical connection. The empirical data is always treated as a
demonstration of a theoretical position or hypothesis rather
than being produced from a theoretical hypothesis in order to
corroborate it. The demonstration of a theory with a
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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