@article{article_767102, title={The Contemporary Sociology Methods in Turkey: The Analysis of Methodology Debates and Dualities}, journal={Turkish Academic Research Review}, volume={5}, pages={479–492}, year={2020}, DOI={10.30622/tarr.767102}, author={Çelik, Nuriye}, keywords={Metodoloji, Türkiye Sosyolojisi, Nitel Yöntem, Nicel Yöntem}, abstract={<div style="text-align:justify;"> <span style="font-size:12px;">The debates on methodology in sociology can be based upon the years when sociology was born as a science. The effort of sociology to achieve a science status and the social changes witnessed by the founding sociologists have determined the methodological preferences of sociology which a new emerging science. Positivism has been accepted as the unique method in sociology for a long time because of that historical roots. Just as the years of the birth of sociology are linked to the need for a regular society, the increasing individual-based tendency in methodology is shaped by the social aspects that arise from a society-individual dilemma in favour of the individual. This study aims to reveal the relationship between methodological debates and dualities in sociology. To be able to see the contemporary status of methodological preferences, it has examined the methods of sociology doctoral theses and articles written recently. As a result of that study, it was seen that the changes in the methodology have proceeded in parallel with the social changes in society and, contemporary sociology has produced theories based individual and the qualitative method was used more in the recent academic literature in sociology. This conclusion will not end the methodological discussions however, it gains importance in observing the effect of social change in methodology. </span> </div>}, number={4}, publisher={Mehmet ŞAHİN}