O společenských vědách bez identity

Kamil Fleissner

E-LOGOS, 2014, vol. 2014, issue 1, 16 pages

Abstract: This essay aims to discuss the concept of identity in critical perspective and in a wider context of the demarcation problem in social science. Following the famous paper Beyond "Identity" (Brubaker, Cooper: 2000) I submit the question whether the "identity" is still usefull and suited as an analytical tool in social science. I pay attention to the origin of the concept of identity and I compare its essentialist, constructivist and deconstructivist approaches that represent various attitudes to social reality, to knowledge (episteme/doxa) and to relation between science and nonscience. I reflect critically all these three approaches and I argue for replacement of the concept of identity but also for more (auto)critical perception in respect of used research tools and of researchers themselves.

Keywords: Identity; demarcation problem; role of social sciences; Identita; problém demarkace; úloha společenských věd (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.370

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