Reflections on Social Research Methodology

Abstract

Does the article present a few ideas related to the more recent or older methodological debates: is sociology a science? is sociological research scientific? does epistemology offer specific methodological rules? what's the point of splitting the social research methodology into quantitative and qualitative? The article suggests some answers and an option for more methodological freedom and creativity; it is in favor of a unitary methodology freed from arbitrary rules and pre-established designs and mostly, it tries ‘to take the Q out of the research.