Re: METHOD X METHODOLOGY

From: SANUSI ALENA LEE (sanusi@ucsu.colorado.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 18:31:58 PDT


On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu wrote:

> By the by, It is very interesting to verify that, in Chrisis, Vygotsky
> also makes a distinction between METHOD and METHODOLOGY (number 8 / §
> 18th). When he reffers to G. P. Zelionii's explanation of the two
> interpretations of the word METHOD (1) as methodology of research,
> technical procedures and (b) method of knowledge that determines the
> objective of the research, the character and nature of a science.

That sounds back to front from my interpretation.

How would one differentiate between research and knowledge, if research is
knowledge production?

On another tack -- I suspect also that you could have technical procedures
or ways of talking that as a researcher you do without making them
foundational -- i.e. without attributing to them the power to generate
knowledge/truth/whatever in and of themselves. (another way of laying out
postmodernism, no?)

--Alena



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