Methodology as an important value of political science research
- Institution: University of Gdańsk (Poland)
- Year of publication: 2010
- Source: Show
- Pages: 30-44
- DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2010002
- PDF: ppsy/39/ppsy2010002.pdf
In reality of getting stronger infl uence of shaping the cultural and civilization mass-media image, human studies are facing new challenges. It is observed that the mass-media are trying to replace some of the sciences, namely the political science. In the practice of cultural life, we can notice the blurring of the borders between mass-media knowledge and actual science. The media commentary of political life is trying to become a research work. The marginalization of the methodology research in the political science leads to deformation of its own science creation. In the scientific recognition of socio-political reality, the methodology is responsible for creating theories, based on defi ning terms, methodological knowledge ordering, explaining and interpreting the knowledge according to particular rules, models, paradigms, etc.