THE APPROACH TO METHODS OF LEGAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: THEORETICAL OR INSTRUMENTAL AND PRACTICAL? Cover Image

PRISTUP METODAMA PRAVNIH I DRUŠTVENIH ISTRAŽIVANJA: TEORIJSKI ILI INSTRUMENTALAN I PRAKTIČKI ?
THE APPROACH TO METHODS OF LEGAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH: THEORETICAL OR INSTRUMENTAL AND PRACTICAL?

Author(s): Ivan Padjen
Subject(s): Methodology and research technology
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Methods; Legal and social research;

Summary/Abstract: A study of methods necessarily intervenes in its subject matter. For that reason it is plausible to formulate methodologies with explicit instrumental and practical aims. Such inquiries can be in several respects superior to traditional methodologies, which are theoretically oriented and - almost inevitably - either philosophically naive or preoccupied more with their own philosophical grounding than with methods they study.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/1991
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 176-192
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian
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