A diszkurzív társadalomtudományi megismerés lehetőségeiről
About the Understanding of Discursive Social Sciences and its Possible Aspects

Summary/Abstract: This article observes a paradigm shift occurred in several disciplines of social science which also differs in theoretical and methodological aspects from science pursuing objectivity. The interpretative social sciences primarily focus on the study of meaning and sets texts and talks into the centre of understanding. Social facts are taking place in an intersubjective sphere, namely among each other. In this paper they are consequently called ‘socially meaningful facts’. Therefore, understanding and meaning of these socially meaningful facts can be study without snapping social reality by means of different survey techniques, which would also necessarily reduce the richness of social meanings. In this paper the vote is given for the transition of discourse approach into a paradigm. A couple of aspects are introduced in order to make an attempt to prove its scientific significance. On the other hand misunderstandings are also falsified. According to these misconceptions, a text-based approach and an actual postmodern scientific scheme is nothing else than a literary project, which also denies the pure existence of reality and only considers all previous knowledge as relative. Instead of that, this paper states that every single fact of society has meaning which is mediated through narratives by the language itself.

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