Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 34 No. 1-2, 2003.
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Actuality of Popper and Methodology for Analysis of Socio-political Discourses (A Sketch of Methodology for Critical Analysis of Socio-political Discourses)
Dunja Šešelja
Sažetak
This paper discusses the methodological problem of critical analysis of modern socio-political paradigms, attempting to reveal methodological mistakes which most critiques make, and aiming to construct an analytical structure that should enable avoiding them. Each analysis must start with some (hermeneutical) perspective, and therefore, with some criteria. While socio-political discourses of the modern world are based on variety criteria, common values – such as freedom, justice, truth – being polysemantic, cannot be taken as universal principles, they require additional criteria to be defined. Consequently, a final position for critical analysis, i.e. a final meta-aproach, is not possible. Furthermore, stating a foundation of such a final position would directly lead to a new ideological approach, closed to any critique. Thus, the analysis should be based on a pluralism of criteria and have an ability to become an object of the next critique within the same methodological perspective. The structure of critical analysis based on these principles would consist of three principal steps: construction, critique and alternative construction, with each alternative construction being the object of a new critique. Hence, an analysis can follow a vertical line (from construction to critique), and a horizontal line (according to the pluralism of criteria as starting and self-reflecting points of each analysis). This sketch seems to be similar to Popper’s schema: Problem —Tentative Solution — Error Elimination — New Problem, which is used to describe the method of development of science in general. Thus, the author is questioning validity of Popper’s approach applied to critical analysis of socio-political discourses. Essential differences between Popper’s theory and the methodological sketch given in this paper imply that Popper’s approach is in this case inappropriate. Furthermore, methodology for critical analysis of socio-political discourses, which satisfies requests set at the beginning of the paper, is closer to the bases of Feyerabend’s epistemological anarchism, which is radically opposite to Popper’s critical rationalism.
Ključne riječi
ANALYSIS; DISCOURSE; SOCIO-POLITICAL; METHODOLOGY; CRITIQUE; KARL POPPER; PAUL FEYERABEND
Hrčak ID:
14485
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.6.2003.
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