چرخش هاي روش شناختي در علوم انساني و اجتماعي

Methodological Turns in Humanities and Social Sciences

Today, methodological turns in humanities and social sciences are key concepts in explaining many categories of and changes in these fields. These turns could be found in many articles and many use them. In this paper, at first, two important turns in humanities are explained: the linguistic and cultural turns. Then, some methodological turns such as narrative, biographical and auto-biographical, and historical turns are illustrated. The philosophical bases, such as methodological opposition to positivism, are also depicted. Altogether, changes from positivistic approach to the more humanistic ones, like interpretative views and positional change from quantitative to qualitative methods, permits the possibility of studying new aspects of social life. In this paper, some of the methodological aspects of these turns are reviewed.