Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Main Paradigms in Social Research Methodology
Main Paradigms in Social Research Methodology
Main Paradigms in Social Research Methodology
Author:
Dr. Sc.soc., Vladislav Volkov
• Main paradigms in social research
methodology
Main paradigms in social research methodology
• Marx believed, were run on behalf of the ruling class and in their
interest while representing it as the common interest of all;
• His thought has been highly influential both for academic and for activist
groups, such as within post-anarchism.
• He argues that these conditions of discourse have changed over time, from
one period's episteme to another.
• Epistemes:
• 1. labour;
• 2. life;
• 3. language
Pierre Bourdieu
(1930-2002)
• This is not to say that the world becomes unreal, but rather that the
faster and more comprehensively societies begin to bring reality
together into one supposedly coherent picture, the more insecure
and unstable it looks and the more fearful societies become. Reality,
in this sense, "dies out".