Date of Award
8-1-2011
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Graduate School of Social Work
First Advisor
Walter LaMendola, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Jean East, Ph.D.
Third Advisor
Darrin Hicks
Keywords
Agency and structure, Collaboration, Critical realism, Danermark, Margaret Archer, Social work research
Abstract
This study utilized the ontological and epistemological foundations of critical realism posed by Margaret Archer (2000) to deepen social work's understanding of collaboration. Through the use of Danermark et al.'s (2002) stages of explanatory research based on critical realism, the author found that agential and structural interactions of the Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative emerged. These findings illustrate that critical realism can be used in social work research to broaden the discipline's perception of human and environment. Archer's (2000) grounding of agency in three orders of reality, that practice is pivotal and morphogenesis is transformative aids in rediscovering how structure constrains or enables collaborative emergence.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Shawna M. Margesson
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
132 p.
Recommended Citation
Margesson, Shawna M., "The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study" (2011). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 395.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/395
Copyright date
2011
Discipline
Social work, Social research