2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introducing the Key Research Paradigms
Published in:
The Foundations of Research
This chapter provides a broad overview of the key tenets in the traditions of research and the key perspectives in core academic disciplines in the human sciences that derive directly from them. It is by no means exhaustive, but is limited to the main research paradigms and a selective discussion of central perspectives in the following disciplines: economics, political science, international relations, sociology and history.