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Multiperspectivity (sometimes polyperspectivity) is a characteristic of narration or representation, where more than one perspective is represented to the audience. [1]Most frequently the term is applied to fiction which employs multiple narrators, often in opposition to each-other or to illuminate different elements of a plot, [1] creating what is sometimes called a multiple narrative, [2] [3 ...
Challenges to this notion includes who is involved in the discourse where knowledge is understood and accepted, [8] how tacit and explicit knowledge interact and get integrated into the larger systems that value multiple perspectives, [9] and difficulties expanding beyond language [10] and cultural limitations on knowledge assumptions. [11]
In terms of sociology, historical sociology is often better positioned to analyze social life as diachronic, while survey research takes a snapshot of social life and is thus better equipped to understand social life as synchronic. Some argue that the synchrony of social structure is a methodological perspective rather than an ontological claim ...
Social Theory and Social Structure (STSS) was a landmark publication in sociology by Robert K. Merton.It has been translated into close to 20 languages and is one of the most frequently cited texts in social sciences. [1]
Multiperspectivalism (sometimes triperspectivalism) is an approach to knowledge advocated by Calvinist philosophers John Frame and Vern Poythress.. Frame laid out the idea with respect to a general epistemology in his 1987 work The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, where he suggests that in every act of knowing, the knower is in constant contact with three things (or "perspectives") – the ...
The objectivity essay discusses essential concepts of Weber's sociology: "ideal type," "(social) action," "empathic understanding," "imaginary experiment," "value-free analysis," and "objectivity of sociological understanding". With his objectivity essay, Weber pursued two goals.
Conflict theories are perspectives in political philosophy and sociology which argue that individuals and groups (social classes) within society interact on the basis of conflict rather than agreement, while also emphasizing social psychology, historical materialism, power dynamics, and their roles in creating power structures, social movements, and social arrangements within a society.