Contingent Eclecticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Villy Søgaard (0000-0001-7119-0049, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-39 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2011.00474.x |
| OpenAlex | W2318696865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
For more than a century, methodological diversity within the social sciences has been the source of recurrent paradigm wars, and no obvious winner seems to be in sight. The aim of this article is to explore the contingencies underlying this diversity. It is argued that the shared condition of complexity forces us to adopt a pragmatic perspective from which even relevant ontological and epistemological assumptions should be thought of as contextual rather than absolute. In particular, the extent to which social causality is perceived as stable and universal vs. dynamic and contextual and the extent to which research‐related reflexivity is an issue appear to set apart the different approaches. Towards the end of the article examples of methodological fit and misfit are provided to illustrate the relevancy of the “contingent eclecticism” observed in practice
Eclecticism · Epistemology · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology
Organizations
The sociology of science
Explaining Social Behavior
An evolutionary theory of economic change
Essays on Philosophical Subjects
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Participation in Victim-Offender Mediation and the Prevalence of Subsequent Delinquent Behavior
Reflexive Predictions
More on Reflexive Predictions
Action Research and Minority Problems
Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory
On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of Keynes
Vita Contemplativa
Erkenntnis und Interesse
The Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems
A Realist Theory of Science
The social construction of reality
An invitation to reflexive sociology
The Boundary of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Dilemma of Social Prediction
Social Theory and Social Structure
Isaac Newton's Influence on Adam Smith's Natural Laws in Economics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |