문화정책의 소통가능성 제고를 위한 비판적 실재론(Critical Realism) 적용 방안에 대한 시론적 연구

Abstract

The current statistical methodology using quantitative data has contributed to enhance the communicative capability of cultural policies. However, the epistemological fallacy of this positive methodology has also led to widening the gap between policies and reality; in addition, it has failed to promote the philosophical communication about the value of culture. In the process of collecting statistical data and creating composite index, the contextuality of regional culture has been neglected, making the original purposes of cultural policies meaningless. The studies of cultural policies as social sciences ought to establish a theoretical base that includes both scientific logic and the cultural understanding of values. This study focuses on increasing the communicative capability of cultural policy by introducing the critical realism of Roy Bhaskar. In so doing, the paper reviews various theoretical arguments of critical realism pursuing the the social science of Human Emancipation and discusses the current problems of cultural policies-such as the “loss of contextuality” and “problem of positive measurements”-suggesting an alternative approach.