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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21464/sp32212

Social Constructivism and Methodology of Science

Gabriel Tȃrziu orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-7331-5412 ; University of Bucharest, Institute for Research in Humanities, 1 Dimitrie Brandza St., RO–060102 Bucharest


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Abstract

Scientific practice is a type of social practice, and every enterprise of knowledge in general exhibits important social dimensions. But should the fact that scientific practice is born out of and tied to the collaborative efforts of the members of a social group be taken to affect the products of these practices as well? In this paper, I will try in to give an affirmative answer to this question. My strategy will be to argue that the aim of science is partially determined by a socio-historical context and that this aim, together with the available background knowledge, stands behind a methodology that is responsible for empirically and aim-adequate theoretical results

Keywords

social constructivism; the aim of science; scientific realism; the commercialization of research; scientific methodology

Hrčak ID:

200292

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/200292

Publication date:

30.4.2018.

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