Fields of Study and Methods

Fields of Study and Methods

1. Political science

   • The methods employed by political science are primarily those of the social sciences. Giovanni Sartori distinguishes four methods, in decreasing order of control strength: Experimental method. Statistical method.

2. Economy

   • The most widely used methods for economic analysis seem to be both inductive and deductive. In many cases the theories have been developed based on the observation of reality. On other occasions, the use of the deductive method has made it possible to find answers to the questions raised.

3. Sociology

   • La observación. La observación es una de las técnicas más utilizadas en los esquemas de investigación de tipo cualitativo.

4. Antropology

   • The method of anthropology follows the procedures of the general scientific method, that is, the one inaugurated by physics, consisting of observing, hypothesizing, verifying and concluding.

5. Law

   • The theoretical methods generally recognized by the authors and that are applicable to legal research are the following: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis, abstraction-concretion, inductive-deductive, systemic-structural-functional, modeling.

6. History

   • Among the main sub-methods of historical research are chronological, geographical and ethnographic. The chronological is the most important.