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Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
Very interesting Charles
I guess all inquiry happens in a social, historical and should I say "fashionable" context- even your own.
The very questions we ask are fuelled by social debate, the media and majority concerns (and then money follows for research).
Are social scientists becoming philosophers-rather than scientists- do you think?
While you are defining things would you like to have ago at "postmodernism, post-structuralism or social constructionism in health" for a student in another thread in this forum?
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Michaelangelica, it seems to me social scientists are not philosophers. Social scientists, to me, are real scientists, ones who collect historical, archeological, anthropological and other data. It is the social
theorists who interpret it and they rationalize. Instead of philosophers, I think they liken to the Confusian literatti of the early last century who thought they understood everything and existed as a very presitiguous class.
I won't dare try to help with postmodernism, post-structuralism or social constructionism in health" because I do not use the terms and are not very familiar with them. Perhaps they are social philosophy!
