Initiation in the social science paradigms

In this book are analyzed the main thinking trends of social philosophy, sociology and psychosociology from the perspective of their crystallization in fundamental paradigms of social research. From this point of view, the essential difference between the natural science paradigms and social sciences paradigms is given by the fact that, despite the high degree of rivalry between the paradigms of all sciences, without exception, however, in the field of social sciences, this fierce competition does not have, in most of the time, as a result the complete elimination of one of the paradigms. As a consequence, in the field of social sciences, despite the divergences between the proposed ideas and theories, the paradigms preserve - to a greater or lesser extent - their actuality and relevance regarding the knowledge of man as a social being.