The Myth of Modernist Method

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2398564
AutoresW Outhwaite (0000-0002-6599-9826, University of Sussex)
Año1999
Volumen2
Número1
Páginas5-25
Fecha de publicación1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13684319922224284
OpenAlexW2042481558
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas34

Postmodernist thinkers have often claimed that there is something like a 'modernist' model of theory and metatheory in the social sciences which is objectivistic, dogmatic, and generally over-ambitious, aiming to dominate the theoretical landscape like a modernist skyscraper. This paper suggests that there is little to support such a view, and that most sociologists and social anthropologists, and many other social scientists, have been much more cautious and tentative in their claims than postmodernists have claimed. The alleged distinctiveness of postmodern social science is therefore itself open to question. The paper includes a discussion of reflection and reflexivity in realist philosophy of science and in the social theory of Habermas and Bourdieu

Epistemology · Metatheory · Mythology · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Philosophy of social science · Postmodernism · Reflexivity · Social philosophy · Social relation · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Philosophy · Social Psychology