Methodological crisis in the social and human sciences and ways to overcome the crisis

Authors

  • Vladimir F. Berkov National Institute for Higher Education, Maskowskaja Street, 15, 220007, Minsk, Belarus

Keywords:

social and human sciences, methodological crisis, comprehensive consideration principle, materialistic principle of activity, notion of interest, materialist conception of history

Abstract

The article shows that at the turn of XX–XXI centuries social and human sciences are found to be in a serious methodological crisis. Under pressure from society with corresponding ideological influence the materialist conception of history was put to the question and replaced by the different variations of exploded positivism. Overcoming the crisis is associated with a return to the dialectics in its Marxist, activity-practical sense (using such categories as «need», «interest», «value», «goal», «mean», «result» etc.).

Author Biography

  • Vladimir F. Berkov, National Institute for Higher Education, Maskowskaja Street, 15, 220007, Minsk, Belarus

    doctor of science (philosophy), full professor; professor at the department of philosophy and methodology of university education

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2019-03-07

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No. 2 (2017): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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Berkov, V.F. 2019. Methodological crisis in the social and human sciences and ways to overcome the crisis. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 2 (Mar. 2019), 87–94.