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"Methodology" is not overlappable to "Sociology", "Psychology", "Archaeology": a "methodology" can be a logic behind a method. It is a theoretical framework th
by mdp2021 2y ago
"Methodology" is not overlappable to "Sociology", "Psychology", "Archaeology":
a "methodology" can be a logic behind a method. It is a theoretical framework that is supposed to validate the methods you will use.
To create a symmetry, you could pose a problem relevant to (say) Psychology, than develop a "psychology" as a theoretical framework valid in Psychology that justifies your further analysis.
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Specifically to the text, the researcher says he checked occurrences of typical names in inscriptions (etc.) and evidence of re-scaled infrastructure - that is the method. The methodology would be expressed in an accompanying study that justifies that method as valid.
- casenmgreen 2y agoIf the Wikipedia is correct, in that; > "In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods." Then methodology is overlappable to "Sociology", "Psychology", "Archaeology".
- mdp2021 2y agoYou missed that the opening of your quotation is «In its most common sense». So there is the other sense, "a theoretical framework for a method". (And you do not easily find around expressions such as "having proposed a sociology (etc.)" - a theoretical framework for a "what"? You do not have a term for a sociological, psychological, archeological practice.) And you will surely find people that will propose that the other sense is more common than the one the Wikipedia editor identified as occasionally preeminent.