首页    期刊浏览 2025年12月21日 星期日
登录注册

文章基本信息

  • 标题:Zur Kritik der empiristischen Forschungspraxis / Criticism of Empirist Research Practice
  • 本地全文:下载
  • 作者:Dr. Richard Münch
  • 期刊名称:Zeitschrift für Soziologie
  • 印刷版ISSN:0340-1804
  • 电子版ISSN:2366-0325
  • 出版年度:1972
  • 卷号:1
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:317-332
  • DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-1972-0403
  • 出版社:Walter de Gruyter GmbH
  • 摘要:

    Starting from falsificationism, as developed by critical rationalists as POPPER, FEYERABEND and LAKATOS, the criticism of this study is directed against the empirist research practice, that is going to dominate empirical research methods of the social sciences. This research practice minimizes the growth of our knowledge concerning our human and societal problems in favour of mere exactness and certainty. Falsificationism succeeds in developing a model of test that shows the far distance between theories and its empirical basis. It is therefore necessary to construct a set of general and specified theories of observation, that is background-theories, which only permit such tests. Such a methodological approach shows that there is not any longer consistency or contradiction between a basic statement and a theory, but only between scrutinized theories and the concerning theories of observation. Thus appears the challenging problem concerning the criterions of acceptability of theories, for we do not know apriori which of the contradictory theories has to be dropped out. This problem can only be solved by the principle of progressive change according to which we not only accept or rule out single theories but series of such theories in so far as such a proceeding implies a progressive change, e.g. growth in truth-content and minimization in falsity-content.

国家哲学社会科学文献中心版权所有