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Volume 3, Numéro 5, Pages 309-320
2015-10-28

Karl Popper's Basics Of Social Sciences Methodology

Authors : Djameleddine Bensliman .

Abstract

Taking in account that Popper has kept his cornerstones of philosophy of science – namely natural sciences – to make of use in social sciences philosophy, but the main of that or the axis that popperian epistemology turning around, and is being deemed as a postulate for Popper thinking in general, is his critical rationalism. Which structuring Popper social epistemology, as well, appears in every technique that Popper gave to be in social sciences methodology. What I am trying to say is that, in this article I go straightforward for Popper’s basic techniques of social sciences, that’s why I hint here about his rationality principle significance in his epistemology. Else, in this work, I try to sum these Popperian basics for social sciences methodology, which never came organized together in his writings. Thus my purpose here is to gather as well as analyze those main ideas. Which are represented in : the first is epistemological, it is his sustainable idea; the unity of scientific method in all sciences. The next three are methodological and technical in social sciences, they are : logic of situations or situational analysis, methodological individualism, then piecemeal social engineering.

Keywords

Karl Popper, philosophy of social sciences, situational logic, methodological individualism, piecemeal social engineering