| Summary: | This article discusses the issues concerning the relation between observation
and the scientific principles of objectivity, systematicity and reliability.
Issues of theoretical orientation, validity, generality, and precision will
be the subject of attention on another occasion. The disintegration of
observation as a research procedure through a radical separation of its
participant and non-participant form is highlighted. This happens under the
influence of exaggerated division between the quantitative and qualitative
methods and their actual but also exaggerated epistemological differences.
The exaggeration is associated with the dominance of empiricism in sociology.
This empiricism is the result of interests of wider social groups and
narrower interests within the scientific community. The necessity of
methodological examination and research implementation of observation
conceived as an integrated procedure is argued by its subversive character,
its objectivity and social changes that require its use. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179035: Izazovi nove društvene
integracije u Srbiji: koncepti i akteri]
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