METATHEORIZING OR PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES?
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METATHEORIZING OR PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES?
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3-9
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The interdisciplinary origins of the sociological metatheorizing and reasons for a surge in its popularity in 1970s–1990s are discussed in order to describe the passage to a current state of metatheory in sociology. The relationships of different types of meta-theoretical investigations with substantive unit theories as well as with an adjacent field of philosophy of social sciences are exemplified using some “hard problems” relating to sociological theories of actions and normativity. The current state of this problem in sociology is described in the article as a movement from the once initial state of striving forconceptual codification and standardization of the complex of sociological theories to their deconstruction and decentration – and back. The author believes this phenomenon may equally be subject of interest for theoretical sociology and philosophy of social sciences.
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мetatheory, object language and meta-language, philosophy of social sciences, postmodernism, theories of action, normativity
Date of publication
01.12.2017
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