Are there Paradigms in the Social Sciences? Cover Image

Există paradigme în ştiinţele sociale?
Are there Paradigms in the Social Sciences?

Author(s): Mattei Dogan
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institutul de Marketing si Sondaje - IMAS SA
Keywords: scientific progress achieved by cumulative knowledge;

Summary/Abstract: In sociology, political science, economics or social anthropology, scientific progress is achieved by cumulative knowledge, by the adding of successive layers of sediments, and not by abrupt jumps. There are no paradigmatic upheavals in the social sciences.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 3-9
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English