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Political research and its epistemological, methodological and normative contexts

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2019

Abstract

Unlike natural sciences, social science research, including political research, is conducted within several major research traditions: explanatory research, interpretative research and critically research. Each of these research traditions is based on different epistemological bases and thus represents specifically a way of exploring social reality.

The differences between these research traditions (explanatory, interpretative and critical research) are presented in this chapter.