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Methodology is a system of rules, Principles and procedures, which forms scientific investigation. Comment.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Sociology as a Science

The statement offers a definition of methodology that fits comfortably within the positivist tradition founded by Auguste Comte and developed by Emile Durkheim, but treating it as the whole truth about methodology overlooks the interpretive judgement Max Weber showed to be equally indispensable.

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  • Distinguishing Method, Methods, and Methodology
  • The "Rules, Principles, Procedures" Framing Fits a Positivist View
  • Weber's Complication: Judgement Cannot Be Reduced to Rule-Following
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