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Pragmatism carries an everyday meaning as being practical, paying attention to the particular context in which you find yourself and not being weighed down by doctrine or ideology.
We identify with pragmatic sociology and try, in our work, to use its methods and develop them. We rely on its theoretical assumptions and its conceptual frameworks to analyze the social world. This paper primarily aims to clarify what the practice of pragmatic sociology requires—in a technical sense first.
Sep 25, 2012 · According to the French scholar, one of the main challenges for sociology was to reconstruct the basic concepts of pragmatism, but in a way that stood in opposition to various central presuppositions underlying classical forms of this philosophical doctrine.
- Bruno Karsenti, Simon Susen
- 2012
- Positivism
- Constructivism
- Pragmatism
Positivism in social research believes in scientific knowledge and experiment for exploring social problems. Positivist social researchers study social problems through scientific methodology, which is generally called experimental research. In positivism, information gained through the experiment is the ultimate and trustworthy information. The re...
Constructivism, on the other hand, has been developed against the criticism of positivist and post-positivist schools of thought, which suggest that knowledge is gathered with the interaction of individual mind and social structure. Knowledge is socially constructed; thus, the researcher needs to acquire comprehensive knowledge about society and pe...
Pragmatism as a philosophical worldview is the latest manifestation in social science research that combines both the philosophy of positivism and constructivism. It is a specific type of philosophy of science that uncovers both social and natural science (Baert, 2004). Pragmatism does not follow any specific system of philosophy or reality, rather...
- rislampacs@du.ac.bd
Feb 22, 2021 · The “pragmatism as better mirror” perspective in recent sociology distills from the pragmatists’ writings a theory of action that sees humans as problem solvers and builds social explanations on the basis of that vision.
- Monica Prasad
- 2021
May 7, 2020 · These two rifts between sociology and pragmatism are at the heart of Durkheim’s theoretical critique. For Durkheim, pragmatism ultimately represents a form of modern irrationalism and sophism: the idea that “the mind remains free with regard to truth” ([1913] 1983: 2), which Durkheim saw as common to all pragmatists, obviously found no ...
Aug 19, 2014 · As a new paradigm, pragmatism disrupts the assumptions of older approaches based on the philosophy of knowledge, while providing promising new directions for understanding the nature of...
