Wogu, Ikedinachi Ayodele Power (2013) An Analysis of the Philosophical Foundations of Behaviouralism and Constructivism:any Imperative to Modern Political Science? International Journal of Research In Social Sciences, 2 (3). pp. 63-71. ISSN 2307-227X
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Abstract
Three broad paradigms initially dominated the deliberations among political analysts on what best mode of analysis exists when it comes to analyzing political issues and phenomenon. Recent studies however reveal that evolving trends of thoughts in political science and generally in the social sciences - with regards to the questions above - now exist among contemporary thinkers in the 21st Century. Consequently, against the existing institutionalists’, pluralists’ and elitists’ approaches to political analysis, contemporary thinkers have proposed the behaviouralists’ and the constructivists’ approaches, among other new modes of analysis, as a more empiric method of analysis which increases the scienticity of deductions made during political analysis. This study, in the light of the various criticisms presented against these new approaches, examines via critical and analytical philosophical methods, all available literature on the behaviouralists’ and constructivists’ approaches with the view to identifying the vivid imperatives which these new approaches offer researchers in political science and in the social sciences. The study concludes that the behaviouralists approach in practice totally embraces all that lends to a scientific character. The constructivist approach on the other hand takes into consideration the various complexities that now exist in human phenomenon
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Mr Solomon Bayoko |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Oct 2013 09:04 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2016 13:40 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/1624 |
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