Dados es una de las principales publicaciones de ciencias sociales en América Latina. Creada en 1966, publica trabajos inéditos e innovadores, procedentes de investigaciones académicas, de autores brasileños y extranjeros. Editada por IESP-UERJ, tiene como objetivo conciliar el rigor científico y la excelencia académica con un énfasis en el debate público basado en el análisis de temas sustantivos en la sociedad y la política.
Dados vol. 38 n. 2 Rio de Janeiro 1995
Resumen
In analyzing critical realism as a philosophy of the social sciences, the text delineates the concept and poses questions concerning its doctrine. The argumentation takes three lines: (1) advocates of critical realism waver between a descriptive and a prescriptive philosophy of science, and although they have recently leaned more towards the second, the first still tends to be overriding; (2) contrary to critical realism's intentions, the importance of its social theory lies in explaining the social order, not in transforming it; (3) critical realism adopts a reduced notion of explanation. Similar to positivism and "falsificationism", critical realism views the acquisition of knowledge as a one-way process, thus failing to recognize that confrontation also affects people's attainable knowledge of themselves and their culture.
O Realismo Crítico e as Ciências Sociais
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