In Defence of Pluralism in the Social Sciences

dc.contributor.author	KEATING, Michael
dc.contributor.author	DELLA PORTA, Donatella
dc.date.accessioned	2011-04-19T12:48:19Z
dc.date.available	2011-04-19T12:48:19Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en
dc.identifier.citation	European Political Science, 2010, 9, 111–120
dc.identifier.issn	1680-4333
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/16522
dc.description.abstract	There are five levels in social inquiry: ontology; epistemology; approaches; methodology; and methods, which we see as means of gathering information. There is no determinate relationship such that one school will consistently choose the same options all the way down. We can cross between what are often seen as competing world views at various of these levels. Natural sciences have not arrived at a unified field theory and there is no reason why social sciences have to do so.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.subject	methodology
dc.subject	pluralism
dc.subject	epistemology
dc.title	In Defence of Pluralism in the Social Sciences
dc.type	Article
dc.identifier.doi	10.1057/eps.2010.40
dc.identifier.volume	9
dc.identifier.startpage	S111
dc.identifier.endpage	S120
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