The missing transition. Empiricist-Historical Descriptivism versus the Critical-Analytical Approach in Albanian Social Sciences Cover Image

Tranzicioni i munguar: Deskriptivizmi empiriko-historicist kundrejt qasjes kritiko-analitike në shkencat sociale shqiptare
The missing transition. Empiricist-Historical Descriptivism versus the Critical-Analytical Approach in Albanian Social Sciences

Author(s): Enika Abazi
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Methodology and research technology, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism
Published by: Shtëpia botuese “UET Press”
Keywords: Albania; communist regime; social sciences; methodology; transition; Empiricist-Historical Descriptivism; Critical-Analytical Approach;

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses mainly on the influence, during the period of communist regime, of the materialist and empiricist approaches used as a method to legitimize Socialism in Albania. The inherited legacy of this methodology during the years to transition marks a missed opportunity to adopt critical thinking in social sciences. Such an approach would have served contemporary social sciences and humanities in Albania as a way out to transform themselves and Albanian social reality to contemporary standards.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 63-75
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Albanian