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This chapter emphasizes two important concepts that try to overcome the positivistic inclinations of the social sciences. These two concepts are context and practice and the authors in this chapter clarify them first. Then, the authors discuss the materialist critique and its implications as well as the ontological turn in the social sciences and humanities. These ideas suggest an approach to the understanding of phenomena that is more closely related to the concrete rather than abstracting phenomena to higher or lower, inside or outside. The ontological turn is an attempt to flatten the world, refusing to acknowledge there is anything other than that which is perceived by the senses and emphasizing that the perceived is all there is; there is nothing above, behind, below or inside of it.
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Bekerman, Z., Zembylas, M. (2018). The Materialist Critique. In: Psychologized Language in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54937-2_13
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