Metamodernism and Social Sciences: Scoping the Future

Anita Pipere () and Kristīne Mārtinsone
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Anita Pipere: Rīga Stradiņš University, Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy, LV-1009 Rīga, Latvia
Kristīne Mārtinsone: Rīga Stradiņš University, Department of Health Psychology and Pedagogy, LV-1009 Rīga, Latvia

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-20

Abstract: At this moment, humanity is confronting several global metacrises that demand a new image of science to deal with the complex problems associated with these crises. In addition to natural sciences and humanities, social sciences can become an equally efficient resource for use in this transformation if they succeed in constructing new frameworks congruent with the new reality. The purpose of this theoretical paper in the discourse of philosophy of science is to discern the features of the social sciences within a new paradigm of metamodernism. For the first time, the authors elaborate on the new principles of metamodernist philosophy and apply them to the ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology of the social sciences. The set of six transversal principles comprises the ontological principle of paradoxical simultaneity, caused by oscillation, epistemological principles of paradoxical understanding of truth and grand narratives, as well as metaxis-based thinking and dia/polylogue, axiological negotiation between rhizomatic and hierarchical social relations and values, and methodological pluralism. The last principle showcases the coexistence and interlinkage of previous stages of metamodernism. The application of these principles to the social sciences was designed from the perspectives of a specific discipline, inter/transdisciplinarity, and instrumental level of social practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of additional avenues for the development of metamodernism in the social sciences.

Keywords: axiology; epistemology; metacrisis; metamodernism; methodology; modernism; ontology; philosophy of science; postmodernism; social sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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