Overview
Major schools
- Critical realism
- Marxist philosophy
- Positivism
- Logical: deductive-nomological model
- Law: universal empirical regularity
- Logical: deductive-nomological model
- Relativism
- “inward collapse”- relativist reasoning is by its own definition relative
Historical groups
- Postmodernism
Methodologies and frameworks
- Ethnomethodology
- Hermeneutics
Common questions
- Idiographic vs nomothetic: relation of individual/specific to universal/general? ^1
References
- Karlsson, Berth Danermark, Mats Ekström, Jan Ch. “Generalization, Scientific Inference, and Models for Explanatory Social Science.” In Explaining Society, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2019.