Scientific Research and the Fact as Social and Hermeneutic Structure

Ledian Rusta

doi:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p103

Abstract

The subject of analysis is the nature of scientific research and the issue of scientific fact viewpoint in two different perspectives. One perspective, which is traditional, considers the scientific research and the fact as an element that enjoys an absolute objectivity quality whereas the postmodern perspective considers it as a social construction of relative nature. The idea is to be demonstrated the new postmodern condition of the the scientific research which considers the latter as a theoretical and practical tool that is articulated by specific interests and social groups. In this respect, the science and its facts are interpretive elements of reality produced by social groups serving the latter. As a conclusion we can emphasize that scientific research is oriented and managed by communities of certain social groups. All elements and structures of this research are far from a neutral objectivity since they are influenced by social and historical interests. Consequently, it is impossible to separate the fact from issues of evaluation that classify it as such. On a more theoretical general level it becomes impossible the explicit separation and distinction between the empirical content and the conceptual approach of the scientific fact. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2p103

Highlights

The issue of what is regarded as scientific research and fact is extremely important as it is connected with aspects of testing, objectivity and what we consider as truth
It has been supported the idea of positivism that fact constitutes an objective thing that stands in the world as an object and the subject does not play any role in its construction and perception
Have been analyzed some elements or structures that the scientific research displays as a special form of knowledge where the subject is affected by social and historical horizons throughout the research of the scientific object. This perspective encompasses the condition that a fact is built from a particular social group and because it reflects the interests and needs of the latter

Summary

Introduction

The issue of what is regarded as scientific research and fact is extremely important as it is connected with aspects of testing, objectivity and what we consider as truth It has been supported the idea of positivism that fact constitutes an objective thing that stands in the world as an object and the subject does not play any role in its construction and perception. With the profound changes that have suffered epistemology of scientific research the idea has emerged that science and its facts constitute an articulated narrative, forming and legitimizing the social group which reveals it. It is a scientific research on the size of hermeneutics where fact is qualified as subjective and social interpretation established in some elements of evaluation. This provides the essence of a dynamic and deeply hermeneutic research to the scientific research

Scientific Fact as Social and Hermeneutic Construction

Interdependent Relationship Between Empirical Content and Conceptual Approach

Conclusions