| Title |
Postmodernizmas ir epistemologinio reliatyvizmo spąstai |
| Translation of Title |
Postmodernism and the puzzle of the epistemological relativism. |
| Authors |
Valantiejus, Algimantas |
| DOI |
10.15388/SocMintVei.2003.2.5936 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas.. Klaipėda : S. Jokužio leidykla-spaustuvė. 2003, Nr. 2, p. 5-49.. ISSN 1392-3358. eISSN 2335-8890 |
| Keywords [eng] |
postmodernism ; epistemology ; relativism ; realism |
| Abstract [eng] |
This essay is an excerpt from the forthcoming book - Critical Discourse in Sociology. Between Positivism and Postmodernism. The essay deals with the dilemmas of relativism. The sociological concept of relativity of last decades was formulated as the integral part of sociological inquiry, aimed at the methodological complexity and some critical character of sociological thought. The intellectual transformation of recent sociology has been accompanied by a proliferation of alternative theories and concepts. Given the acute understanding of socially determined and arbitrary character of knowledge, the new sociological identity is being shaped by the pluralist context of latter-day sociological inquiry. This essay attempts an appraisal of differences in alternative modes of knowledge by exploring critically its various thematic features. As sociology‘s ongoing internal struggles continue, it is appropriate to ask whether the multidimensional approach is able to employ its own relativistic elements and maybe analytic techniques in the process of keeping itself more useful to the social sciences. […]. |
| Published |
Klaipėda : S. Jokužio leidykla-spaustuvė |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2003 |
| CC license |
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