Review article

The epistemological potential of phenomenology in revealing the ideological aspects of social life

Ivan Perkov orcid.org/0000-0002-4961-7007 ; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Borongajska cesta 83d, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Erik Brezovec orcid.org/0000-0002-6545-632X ; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Borongajska cesta 83d, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Ideology is frequently perceived as a multifaceted, vague, and even pejorative macrosociological concept. The first part of the paper focuses on the precise sociological definition of ideology as a concept, and the contextualization of the meaning of all great macrosociological concepts. Furthermore, this paper aims to propose a framework for empirical and epistemological research of ideology within the framework of sociology as a science. Multi-paradigmatic and pluriperspective features of sociology, which are frequently pointed out as its faults, are in this paper presented as a certain advantage of sociology. The proposed framework is approached from the basis of phenomenology as protosociology; that is, philosophical discipline which creates the foundation for orientational, phenomenological research of ideology by combining the qualitative and quantitative sociological methods.

Keywords

phenomenology; ideology; orientational research; mixed methodology

Hrčak ID:

224116

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/224116

Publication date:

10.8.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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