Mogu li društvene nauke biti praktične?
COULD SOCIAL SCIENCES BE PRACTICAL?

Author(s): Goran Bašić
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political Theory, Political Sciences
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: society; science; positivism; public policy
Summary/Abstract: Social sciences are objected for their abstractedness and inapplicability in everyday life. Many contest the purpose of social sciences and point to their weaknesses. The problems that social sciences encounter are divided to external and internal. The first group originate in the crisis of contemporary liberal state, while the second group is caused by the crisis of ideas. Enemies of social sciences, populists and pseudo-scientists deepen this crisis and utilise fear, deception, superficiality and seductive laicism as the agents of their own promotion, at the cost of further deterioration of social sciences. In order to overcome such condition, a paradigm shift is needed, which would strike balance between theoretical and empirical research, based on the principles of the freedom of scientific work. The new paradigm of social sciences, which follows Kuhn’s thesis on revolutionary transformations in sciences, would be preceded by the adoption of a wider, social paradigm.

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