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The concept of Critical Realism (and its later development using concepts from Hegel and Marx) known as dialectical critical realism (DCR), comes from philosophy, and not from social science. It uses philosophical language and reasoning, which is often challenging for the social scientist who has had no grounding in formal logic, or in the discipline of philosophical analysis.
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Sawyerr, A.A.A., Bagley, C.A. (2017). Critical Realism and Dialectical Critical Realism. In: Equality and Ethnic Identities. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-080-6_3
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