On the question of knowledge in social sciences

Abstract

Two «working papers» are assembled here, the first entiled «Introduction to the problem of knowledge of social reality» and the second «The scientific knowledge of social reality as a product of a work of abstraction and construction». These «papers» were produced as «working tools» for the teaching staff and students of universitary level (courses of «Introduction to the Study of Social Sciences» and «General Methodology of the Social Sciences»). Each «working paper» is divided into two parts: in the first, the main theme is very schematically set forth; in the second there is a selection of texts from several authors, so ordered as to allow and stimulate critical discussion and development of the main theme.