Kritika tehničkog empirizma
CRITICISM OF TECHNICAL EMPIRICISM

Summary/Abstract: Technical empiricism represents a specific theoretical and methodologic trend of research in social sciences, originated within the bourgeois science and transfered to Yugoslav social science. Technical empiricism is a reply to the speculative and theoretical thinking and attitude to social reality and an orientation towards scientific cognition of immediate, experiencable reality. Technical empiricism primarily gathers the empiric data, which are not sufficiently founded in theory. Technical empiricism is not an auxiliary method in research within social sciences, but it became an independent methodologic and methodic procedure in data gathering, instead. It is the incoherence and insufficiency of a wider theoretic frame and foundation that rapresent the basic drawback of this trend which originated within the automatization process of social sciences in the West. Ideological foundation of technical empricism is conservativism, and its political aim is to preserve the existing system. The ideologico-political pretext of technical empiricism make it inapplicable to Yugoslav social science and science in general. From the standpoint of Yugoslav social science and its task to explain the social reality, technical empiricism can be used only as an auxiliary methodic-methodologic procedure.

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