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Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics

Sartori, Giovanni·1970·American Political Science Review

DOI 10.2307/1958356

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“To have mastered ‘theory’ and ‘method’ is to have become a conscious thinker , a man at work and aware of the assumptions and implications of whatever he is about. To be mastered by ‘method’ or ‘theory’ is simply to be kept from working.” The sentence applies nicely to the present plight of political science. The profession as a whole oscillates between two unsound extremes. At the one end a large majority of political scientists qualify as pure and simple unconscious thinkers. At the other end a sophisticated minority qualify as overconscious thinkers, in the sense that their standards of method and theory are drawn from the physical, “paradigmatic” sciences. The wide gap between the unconscious and the overconscious thinker is concealed by the growing sophistication of statistical and research techniques. Most of the literature introduced by the title “Methods” (in the social, behavioral or political sciences) actually deals with survey techniques and social statistics, and has little if anything to share with the crucial concern of “methodology,” which is a concern with the logical structure and procedure of scientific enquiry. In a very crucial sense there is no methodology without logos , without thinking about thinking. And if a firm distinction is drawn—as it should be—between methodology and technique, the latter is no substitute for the former. One may be a wonderful researcher and manipulator of data, and yet remain an unconscious thinker.

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“We view these in-depth interviews as a way to refine our understanding of the category, people of color, in terms of its intension and extension (Adcock and Collier 2001; Sartori 1970).”
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Authors: Sartori, G.
Affiliations: University of Florence (IT)
Corresponding author: Sartori, Giovanni
Venue: American Political Science Review
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published: 1970-12
Volume: 64
Issue: 4
Pages: 1033-1053
ISSN: 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
1537-5943
DOI: 10.2307/1958356
OpenAlex: W2009952390
Cited by: 3,318
References: 42
Citations by year: 2026: 182 · 2025: 248 · 2024: 212 · 2023: 225 · 2022: 182 · 2021: 213 · 2020: 189 · 2019: 190 · 2018: 184 · 2017: 112 · 2016: 94 · 2015: 131 · 2014: 125 · 2013: 126 · 2012: 107
FWCI: 138.50
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 15949 d)
Locations: American Political Science Review (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Science Research and Education
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Social Science and Policy Research
Keywords: comparative politics, political science methodology, theory and method, unconscious thinking, survey techniques, social statistics

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