The present study aims to get to know the philosophical, conceptual and methodological aspects of Critical Discourse Analysis, as a theoretical-methodological framework for research in the mental health area. Initially, the study presents a reflection on psychiatric discourse in history and at present, with the goal of introducing concepts and presuppositions that would guide the analysis of di...

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...

The purpose of this work is to determine the chronological framework, features, main trends and most prominent representatives initial period creation national school management sociology in Great Britain. In course research process, such general scientific methods as analysis generalization were used, well special methods: historical-genetic historical periodization. As a result study, data co...

The volume of data being produced for administrative purposes is increasing rapidly. Data must be analysed in order to extract useful information to support decision making. The demand for evidence-based information means that the analysis must be conducted according to the principles of scientific research. Unfortunately, the massive second-hand data sets seem not to fit very well into the tra...