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- Title
Notes on the Discipline/Notes sociologiques.
- Authors
Prus, Robert
- Abstract
If one reads the major North American journals in social sciences, it would appear that the life continues as usual in these fields. The emphasis is on uncovering factors thought to explain particular outcomes or conditions of human existence. The thrust is casual and quantitative. Concerns are focused on the operations of variables, hypothesis testing, sampling, the acquisition of rate data and establishment of cumulativeness in the literature. While a considerable variety of works are encompassed by the interpretive paradigm, the premises of sociology provides some general points of reference. The interpretive critique provides a vital forum for stock taking and assessments of epistemological foundations of the social sciences. This interchange is not to be avoided. It is essential. Without it, there may not be much of social science to pass along to the future generation of scholars.
- Subjects
NORTH America; PERIODICALS; SOCIAL sciences; THEORY of knowledge; HYPOTHESIS; SOCIOLOGY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1990, Vol 15, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article