Social desighning of reality and methodological problems
The paper describes two rival approaches to the study of social reality. The so-called nomothetic approach is based on the ideas of positivism and favors quantitative research methodology. The alternative idioeraphic approach is close in spirit to phenomenology and leads to qualitative research methodology. Since social reality is constructed rather than just given, it is futile to try to study it by purely objective methods. Elements of interpretation are absolutely unavoidable here. This claim is substantiated through analyzing examples pertaining to various social problem.
Keywords
qualitative and quantitative research methods, analysis and synthesis, methodological pluralism, nomothetic and idiographic approaches, character of social reality, materialism, idealism, scientific methodology, picture of the world, анализ и синтез, количественные и качественные методы исследования, номотехническин и идиогехннчеекпп подходы, методологический плюрализм, научная методология, характер социальной реальности, картина мира, материализм и идеализмAuthors
Name | Organization | |
Solovyov Alexander V. | Russian State Social University |
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