Summary Of "Trends In Social Science Research" By Piaget & Others - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES - E-book - ePub

We have summarized the essential of this book by the author. Characteristics and epistemological foundations of the human sciencesThe first type of science to be updated was the deductive sciences. The Greeks propose a developed logic and mathematics. In modern times the natural sciences based on experimentation emerged. There are three reasons for this delay, and they are also of interest to the sciences of man:1.
While in deduction reason works spontaneously and freely, experimentation requires submission to external instances2. Deductive operations are the simplest. On the other hand, in the field of experimentation, complex operations are required, since the data is presented to us in a confusing way3. The "reading" of the experience supposes an action on the real thing and implies a logical or mathematical structuringThese three reasons also apply to the human sciences, where the problems are even more complex.
In addition, in the human sciences, the scientist has immediate intuitions about the reality that he tries to know, which delays the resort to experimentation. The distinction of the factors to consider is much more difficult. To the difficulties that they share with the natural sciences, the human sciences add other methodological problems of their own. First, in the human sciences, the subject who studies and the object of study coincide.