The dynamic two-way relationship between empirical data and theoretical concepts. A framework for recording and understanding social phenomena

The dynamic two-way relationship between empirical data and theoretical concepts. A framework for recording and understanding social phenomena

Sotiris Chtouris

Abstract

The study will present a research methodology guided by the need to study social reality as a coherent presence of social phenomena and the social entities involved in them. In this light, the data forms and the levels of their collection and processing as well as their combination for the production of concepts and theoretical proposals for real social phenomena are determined. In this context, it is interesting to combine elements of empirical positivism with elements of dialectical realism, with the main goal of understanding theoretical work as an integral part of empirical research, but mainly the opposite, empirical data as a component of modern sociological theory.