Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real...

Dialectical realism (Hacking) Direct realism Empirical realism Entity realism Epistemic structural realism Epistemological realism Hermeneutic realism (Heidegger)...

men" who were disillusioned with modern society. It used a style of social realism which depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons, living...

Critical realism is a philosophical approach to understanding science, and in particular social science, initially developed by Roy Bhaskar (1944–2014)...

The term "capitalist realism" has been used, particularly in Germany, to describe commodity-based art, from Pop Art in the 1950s and 1960s to the commodity...

sub-movement of realism, that attempted (not wholly successfully) to distinguish itself from its parent by its avoidance of politics and social issues, and...

Magic realism or magical realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements...

ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism, regionalism, or kitchen sink realism. There have been various realism movements in the arts, such as the...

related, it should not be confused with social realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern and was popularized in the United...

Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French...

Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of...

objects Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences), philosophical approach associated with Roy Bhaskar Theological critical realism, a term used...

Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among...

Scientific realism is the view that the universe described by science is real regardless of how it may be interpreted. A believer of scientific realism takes...

In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us...

Hysterical realism is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between...

Depressive realism is the hypothesis developed by Lauren Alloy and Lyn Yvonne Abramson that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than...

totalitarian regimes, and the Holocaust. Christian realism was in part a reaction to the 20th-century Social Gospel movement. Numerous American political figures...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? is a 2009 book by British philosopher Mark Fisher. It explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism", which...

Offensive realism is a structural theory in international relations that belongs to the neorealist school of thought and was put forward by the political...

sharp angles, dark hatching, and gritty lines, and thematically by realism, social engagement, maturity, and masculinity. In the 1950s, mainstream Japanese...

Boyes-Watson from Suffolk University defined restorative justice as: ...a growing social movement to institutionalize peaceful approaches to harm, problem-solving...

Subtle realism is a philosophical position within social science that, along with other forms of realism, stands opposed to naïve realism and various forms...

Agential realism is a theory proposed by Karen Barad, in which the universe comprises phenomena which are "the ontological inseparability of intra-acting...

Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law; it is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, that is, it should rely...

"Realism in the Balance" (German: Es geht um den Realismus) is a 1938 essay by Georg Lukács written while he lived in Soviet Russia and first published...

Left realism emerged in criminology from critical criminology as a reaction against what was perceived to be the left's failure to take a practical interest...

In analytic philosophy, anti-realism is a position which encompasses many varieties such as metaphysical, mathematical, semantic, scientific, moral and...

Right realism, in criminology, also known as New Right Realism, Neo-Classicism, Neo-Positivism, or Neo-Conservatism, is the ideological polar opposite...

Socialist realism in Poland (Polish: socrealizm) was a socio-political and aesthetic doctrine enforced by the pro-Soviet communist government in the process...