Leo Sayer Leo Sayer Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948) is a British-born singer-songwriter musician and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. He is now an Australian citizen and resident. Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s, and became a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the United Kingdom all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his first manager, Adam Faith. His songs have been sung by other notable artists, including Cliff Richard ("Dreaming").
Andrew Sayer to recast the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences, developing critical realism as a philosophy of and for the social sciences ("Method in Social Science", 1984, and "Realism and Social Science", 2000). Critical realism argues for "theoretically informed concrete research". "Method in Social Science" has been cited over 4230 times as of Feb. 2016. Debates about Sayer's approach have been extensive, particularly his view that empirical modelling techniques in the social sciences cannot show real causal relationships, and his dissatisfaction with social constructionism and postmodernism. Andrew Sayer R. Andrew Sayer (born 1949) is Professor of Social Theory and Political