In recent decades, a number of research paradigms of humanities have been proposed besides or as supplement to traditional research methods. Hermeneutics which consists of humanities in particular, is one of the current intellectual trends. The researcher attempts to act according to the special nature of human phenomena and does not intend to pursue such goals as recovering universal principles. This intellectual method has some positive effects, such as distinguishing the research method of humanities from natural sciences, opposing simplification and reductionism of human and social phenomena, avoiding statisticism in humanities, attending to human being as a whole, emphasizing on the function of reasoning in human behavior instead of searching for causes, and using introvert methods.
Badri, R., & Hosseini Nasab, D. (2007). Hermeneutics as an Educational Research Method. Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, 13(50), 103-124.
MLA
Rahim Badri; davoud Hosseini Nasab. "Hermeneutics as an Educational Research Method". Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, 13, 50, 2007, 103-124.
HARVARD
Badri, R., Hosseini Nasab, D. (2007). 'Hermeneutics as an Educational Research Method', Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, 13(50), pp. 103-124.
VANCOUVER
Badri, R., Hosseini Nasab, D. Hermeneutics as an Educational Research Method. Methodology of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2007; 13(50): 103-124.
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