Таbular presentation of the main assumptions of the two variants of the
functionalist positivist paradigm
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а) collectivist conservative variant б) individualist reformist variant |
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gnoseological and epistemological |
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Social world |
Reliable and valid technical - instrumental knowledge about |
A sense of cognition is the systemic and social integration of the institutional |
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а) оbјеctively exists in the form of the consensus about the collective ways of thinking, acting and feeling outside of and independent from individual consciousness, which it determines |
а) inherited natural causes |
а) which is basically unchangable |
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б) оbjectively exists in the form of a harmonious or from time to time dysfunctional resultant of the interaction of individual consciousness |
б) ascribed institutionl causes of the perceptible social behavior of people, achieved through empirical quantittive methods according to the model of natural sciences |
б) which can be and should be improved gthorugh gradual reforms |
• ASSIGNEMENT:
Based on the proposed textbook and source literature and the ones you find, modify, supplement and / or elaborate the basic оntological, еpistemological and practical assumptions of typical advocates of the two variants of the functionalist positivist paradigmatic approach to exploration of the problems of cognition and knowledge.