The work is devoted to current problems of modern western methodology of science. Qualitative research methods in the social sciences will be considered. Followers of qualitative research methods use words as data rather than numerical representations, tend to rely on linguistic information rather than statistical data, and use data in the form of text, which in turn serves to analyze a situation in detail.
qualitative and quantitative research methods; scientific methodologies; paradigm; scientifically based ontology; objective view; traditional beliefs, postmodernity.