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Realism is self-fulfilling

Neo-realist scholars claim to be objective observers of social world but often help to legitimise and reproduce hierarchical structure and conflictual relations they analyse. Neo-realist theory can end up explaining actions and behaviour that it has directly or indirectly produced.

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