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In this paper, we propose to utilize the methods of network analysis to analyze the relationship between various elements that constitute any particular research in social sciences. Four levels that determine a design of the research can be established: ontological and epistemological assumptions that determine what is the reality under the study and how can we obtain the knowledge about it; a general methodological frame that defines the object of the study and a spectrum of research questions we are allowed to pose; and, finally, a list of methods that we might use in order to get answers. All these levels are interrelated, sometimes in very confusing way. We propose to extract a preliminary set of relations between various elements from textbooks on methodology of social and political sciences and to visualize and analyze their relations using network analytic methods.
The article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of a subsidy by the Russian Academic Excellence Project ‘5-100.’
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The authors express their gratitude to Dr. Valentina Kuskova, Head of International Laboratory for Applied Network Research, who has been supervising this research from the initial idea to the final version.
Funding The article was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of a subsidy by the Russian Academic Excellence Project ‘5-100.’
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List of textbooks used for the analysis:
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[8]: Box-Steffensmeier, J.M., Brady, H.E., Collier, D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology (2008)
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[9]: Marsh D., Stoker G. (eds.) Theory and Methods in Political Science (2010)
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[6]: Della Porta D., Keating M. (eds.) Approaches and Methodologies in Social Sciences (2008)
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[3]: Moses, J.W., Knutsen, T.L. Ways of Knowing: Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research (2012)
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[7]: Abbott, A. Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences (2004)
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Zaytsev, D., Drozdova, D. (2018). Mapping Paradigms of Social Sciences: Application of Network Analysis. In: Kalyagin, V., Pardalos, P., Prokopyev, O., Utkina, I. (eds) Computational Aspects and Applications in Large-Scale Networks. NET 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96247-4_17
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