Open AccessExploring reality through new lenses
Author(s) -
Bengt Engan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
comparative social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.131
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 0809-9936
DOI - 10.31265/jcsw.v1i1.21
Subject(s) - position (finance) , sociology , aesthetics , social reality , epistemology , media studies , psychology , social science , philosophy , business , finance
Can the essay genre used in education and reserarch provide new options for describing reality? This genre has already obtained a strong position in philosophy, in which it has proven to be appraopriate when dealing with “the far too big and the far too small questions”. But what about the essay as a supplement to – or even a replacement for – traditonal descriptions within social science in higher education?