Prising open the black box: Critical realism, action research and social work

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 73-91

  Houston, Stan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Critical realism; Social domains

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749289903     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325009355622     Document Type: Article

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