Published: 2015-03-31

Popper’s criticism as a foundation of sociological research on societies’ civilizational development

Arkadiusz Jabłoński

Abstract

In this article I present Karl R. Poppper’s method of trial and error in the three different ways of interpretation. These interpretations determine different kinds of logic of seeing the mechanisms of knowledge development within the formula of trial and error. According to the most influential interpretations, one can treat the method of trial and error firstly as an epistemological analysis of the rules of scientific justification; secondly, as an evolutionist perspective on the laws of adaptation and selection,and, thirdly, as a criticistic analysis of the products of knowledge. The first two interpretations have become part of the methodological and meta-theoretical reflection on the nature of knowledge; the third as a basis of sociological analysis of knowledge.

Keywords:

Karl Popper, Margaret Archer, knowledge, sociology of knowledge

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Jabłoński, A. (2015). Popper’s criticism as a foundation of sociological research on societies’ civilizational development. Academic Journal of Sociology, 10(1). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/ucs/article/view/2912

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