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Epistomolgy - Coggle Diagram
Epistomolgy
Hermeneutic or interpretative approaches
It prioritises understanding social action over explaning it
This distinction arose in German philosophy and social theory (erklären and verstehen)
Understanding relates to human reasoning and intentions as grounds for social action
The social world is socially constructed
Knowledge discoursively theoretically and conceputally laden
We cannot have unbiased access to social facts, so we should focus on identifyíing those
The study of what we can know
Theories of knwoledge
Are there bounderies to what we can know?
They do not need to be abstract
There can be a limit of what we can possibly observe
Is there something beyond that limti?
What can we know about the social and political world ?
Scientific or postivist approaches
The formulation of laws and accurate predictions
This epistomolgy is linkjed to natural
We are limited to what we can know, what we can directly observe
We should attempt to establish casual relationships between social phenomenoms
Critical realism
Mixed view
Share with positivists that the wolrd has some objective features
It follows an objecitivst ontology, which is shared with positivist approaches
But in epistomolgy it shares some features of interpretivist approaches