e-Pedagogium 2017, 17(3):7-26 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2017.032

What are the social sciences, ambiguity and large variability meaning of the term social II

Peter Ondrejkovič
prof. PhDr. Peter Ondrejkovič, DrSc., Ústav pedagogiky a sociálních studií, Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci, Žižkovo nám. 5, 771 40 Olomouc, E-mail: peter.ondrejkovic@upol.cz

The question if it is at all possible to speak about science also outside the scope of the natural sciences arises from an outdated classic conception of science based on the Newtonian and Cartesian model. Social sciences also represent an outdated conception of science created by division and unification of separate parts in accordance with the laws of classic causality which formed the deterministic world view. The classic conception of strictly deterministic laws recedes and appears to be a complex web of relationships between various parts of the social reality. The social reality does not consist solely of rationally acting beings, thus it is not possible to understand the social reality and society only by means of logical reasoning and reducing things into what is measurable and observable. The studied social phenomena belong to the scope of social sciences which operate in the "world of significance". Thus, the social sciences represent an interpretation of the social structure, system of laws and influence of measurable (also material) forces, as well as a network of meanings, practices and rules. For social sciences it is not possible to use as exact methods as in the natural sciences. However, the nature of social sciences is complementary to other sciences and together they form the unity of human knowledge.

Keywords: social, social phenomena, the concept of science, natural and social sciences, methods, Bayesianism, quantitative and qualitative approach, interpretative process, understanding

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