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As old as science is the human cogitation about how scientific knowledge is approached by man. An answer to this question is not yet in sight. Up to today the philosophy of science as developed from epistemology is not able to solve the problem of scientific knowledge generation completely, but its advancements provide guidelines on how knowledge about the world is accessible to us. This is especially important for the social sciences, because the researchers are part of the studied phenomena.
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Häuberer, J. (2011). Introduction. In: Social Capital Theory. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92646-9_1
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