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- W2335659862 abstract "Sociologists have long been interested in classifying their own theories, partly as a means to additional analysis, partly as a step toward comparisons between ideas and social groups. Current work in the philosophy of science has made our classification efforts even more compelling. Many authors, the best known being Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, have suggested that all sciences construct metatheoretical views, proselytize these views through colleague-student networks, and use their metatheory (or paradigm) to define the limits of acceptable truth. Recently philosophers have argued that a true cannot exist; the term is too ambiguous, the practice of science too fluid. But even if paradigms do not exist in extreme form, some of the problems inherent in paradigmrestricted science remain, most notably a tendency to choose and interpret data solely in terms of a limited theoretical view. My question, then, is whether there are empirically identifiable metatheoretical perspectives in sociology, and to what degree these perspectives, assuming they exist, form a closed theoretical world. In Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science, George Ritzer identified three possible metatheories in sociology organized into distinct views about the logic of science. These three sociological paradigms are broad units reflecting consensus about subject matter and scientific procedure clustered around social facts, social definitions, and social behavior. If these perspectives are true paradigms, then theorists within each live in incommensurable worlds, each separate, members blinded to possible contributions from another theory. Ritzer described paradigm quarrels in sociology: social factists often denigrate the soft methodology of participant observation and definitionists retaliate, disparaging the incompleteness of information in hard-data studies. But even as he points to the problems of blindness, Ritzer also claims that many sociologists develop less restricted theory. He names bridgers, most notably Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Parsons, who straddle two, or even three, perspectives with their theory building. I suspect that Ritzer's dilemma-arguing for blindness" @default.
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- W2335659862 title "An Empirical Comparison of Ritzer's Paradigms and Similar Metatheories: A Research Note" @default.
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