Conceptual Issues in the Social Sciences: Variants of Accountability ABSTRACTConceptual issues are integral to the social sciences. However, for social science to attract continuing legitimacy, the need to reduce continually, the level of the embedded disputations, caot be over emphasized. In addressing the surrounding issues, this contribution concentrates on the concept of accountability, by attempting to identify its variants. The paper uses the documentary research methodology to conduct its investigations, and arrive at its positions. It adopts structural functionalism as theoretical framework. It is concluded in the contribution that accountability is the adhesive that binds societal structures to functionalism. And it is accordingly imperative that social scientists whose research laboratory is the society, understand accountability in its manifold dimensions.KEYWORDS: Accountability, concept of accountability, types of accountability, variants of accountabilityINTRODUCTIONThe social science research area is a sphere of immense conceptual disputations. These disputes sometimes leave the social scientists with beclouded trajectories of very important concepts. Some of these concepts with vagueness are either current in social science research or may no longer belong to the orthodoxy but have left disjointed angles to the continuity of the social sciences as worthy area of study. The inherent conceptual contentions (in contradiction) invariably compel social scien
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نویسنده: کاوه محبی
تاريخ: جمعه
25 آذر
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