Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 83)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 83)

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CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY, SUBJECT, THEORY AND METHODS OF
CONSTRUCTION
In this chapter I will outline the realist methodology
utilised and some of the basic theoretical concepts used to
describe the regional relations of production and ground the
explanation of the phenomenon of poverty and underdevelopment
in the peasant sector of the north Jordan Valley of the
occupied West Bank of Jordan. These concepts shall be
developed and re-constructed throughout this thesis in a
manner which reflects the retroductive methodology of
realism. [In section II I present a very brief description of
the region which provides some indication of the level and
form of poverty and underdevelopment. Section III outlines
the basic parameters of the debate over the articulation of
modes of production and draws out the key concepts of the
debate in a manner which is compatible with the research
protocols of methodological realism. Finally, in section IV,
I briefly explain the main methods used in constructing the
study.
I. METHODOLOGY
For the realist the world exists as a real/concrete entity
composed of a complex combination of structures or generative
mechanisms (the level of the real) and their multiple
determinations (the level of the actual). This real/concrete
is composed of multiple causal mechanisms, iS ontologically
Stratified and structurally pluralistic. The function of
an
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Alex Pollock

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