MECHANIZMUSOKON ALAPULÓ MÓDSZERTANI MOZGALOM A TÁRSADALOMTUDOMÁNYOKBAN
METHODOLOGICAL MOVEMENT BASED ON MECHANISMS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: Scholars working in social sciences often meet a dilemma how to “choose” between quantitative and qualitative methods of research from data collecting working towards conclusion. The question often occurs: where is the borderline between speculative and available scientifi c explanations. The aim of the paper is to present methodological movements that make an attempt to bridge this dilemma by methodological considerations. The paper wishes to present mechanism-based explanations and fundamental considerations related to social mechanisms. Nowadays this approach can be found primary in life sciences and economics, but from our general perspective it is possible and it is worth extending it to political science. Mechanism help us to substantiate investigations that are politically relevant to phenomena, and which are conducted in political science, but explanations often prove to be “clumsy” from methodological point of view.

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