Affect Background of Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology in the Study of Political Culture: Compare the Two Approaches of Anthropology and the Study of Modernization

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Afshin  Ashkevar Kiyaie ¹ (Ph.D. Student of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Political Science (Political Sociology) Dep., Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2015-08-05 Accepted : 2015-11-14 Published : 2016-02-04

Keywords: Methodology, Epistemology, Ontology, Methods, Quantitative and Qualitative Research,

Abstract :

  There are various forms of social research with different approaches that distinguish them using the four aspects of ontology, epistemology, methodology and method. In examining the political culture, this article have tried anthropology (with quality process) and modernization studies (with quantity process) approaches are presented and compared with those four aspects to be aware of the depth difference between the two approaches in study of political culture.        The main questions of article are how affecting four aspects: ontological, epistemological, methodological and methods in a research? How affecting those four aspects in examining of political culture? The main hypothesis is that any researcher attitude towards the nature of social phenomena (ontology) affecting the kind of knowledge (epistemology) researcher and then the two aspects affect the kinds of methodologies and finally, in relation to the three aspects, the researcher selects the type of collected data (method). The purpose of this article introduces the two types accommodating and puting on a special channel in these four aspects in the study of political culture.