Inner model II: Hodges' model - helping to locate Social Sciences...

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group-population

subjective	objective
A scheme for analysing assumptions about the nature of the social sciences, The subjective-objective dimension The Subjectivist The Objectivist Nominalism ontology Realism Anti-positivism epistemology Positivism Voluntarism human nature Determinism Ideographic methodology Nomothetic

Burrell, G., and Morgan, G. Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis. London: Heinemann, p.3.

My source: Table 1.1 A scheme for analysing assumptions about the nature of the social sciences, The subjective-objective dimension, Tudor, K. (1996). Mental Health Promotion, Paradigms and practice, London: Routledge, p.30.

Related link: http://faculty.babson.edu/krollag/org_site/org_theory/Scott_articles/burrell_morgan.html