Meat-theory as a tool for understanding

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1 Ph.D. student of Political Science, Research Branch, Islamic Azad University

2 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Chalous Branch, Islam

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law,

10.30465/cps.2019.3531

Abstract

Meta-theory is one of the newest developments in study of theories. While theorists contemplate social world as problematic subject, meta-theorists study the theory itself systematically. Meta-theory has different names in literature of social science such as meta-sociology, reflectivity sociology, and sociology of sociology. Though this approach has its roots in sociology, it is applicable in other fields of study. Meta-theory is a tool to reach deeper understanding of theory and its goal is to explain and study assumptions of theory critically; assumptions that form structure of theory. Many thinkers emphasize on development of social theory and in this regard meta-theory is critical step. The main goal of this article is to provide fundamental parameters of the approach in which the roots and nature of meta-theoretical studies are addressed and to study different kinds of meta-theory with reference to meta-theoretical approach of Ritzer 

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Contemporary Political Studies
Volume 9, Issue 4 - Serial Number 30
February 2019
Pages 21-36

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