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critical realism noun[ U ] social science specializeduk /ˌkrɪt.ɪ.kəl ˈrɪə.lɪ.zəm/ us /ˌkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl ˈriː.ə.lɪ.zəm/ a philosophical theory that says that science and social science should study the systems that cause things to happen: Our discussion on problem solving, social system design, and organizational change is based on the views of critical realism. He spent years studying the critical realism of Herbart and his disciples. Victorian studies will have to develop a critical realism about culture and the role of humanities in the university. He asserts that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Philosophy aesthete aesthetic aesthetically anthropocentric anthropocentrism epistemology essentialism existential existentialism existentialist non-deterministic non-philosophical notional ontological ontologically spatiotemporally superorganic supersensible syllogism syllogistic |