Emil DINGA1,2
Abstract. The aim of the paper is to ground and examine the basic methodological profiles of the scientific researchers involved in doctoral and post-doctoral scientific research of excellence. To this end, firstly, some considerations on the general concepts of knowledge, scientific research, and scientific knowledge are provided. Next, the main (11) specific features of the economic/social field (compared with the natural one) are identified and interpreted. Based on the two issues, the third step is to propose the concept of what is called d-paradigm vs. the k-paradigm (i.e., the well-known Kuhnian paradigm), by examining its mechanism as a cognitive paradigm assigned to doctoral and post-doctoral scientific research of excellence. A Seven types of approach compatible (or, principled, required) by the d-paradigm are identified and commented in their peculiarities. The last contribution of the paper is the proposal for three fundamental methodological profiles of the scientific researchers involved in the doctoral or post-doctoral scientific research of excellence. Two annexes bring some details on the issues discussed in the main body of the paper.
Keywords: knowledge; scientific research; excellence; paradigm; methodological profile.
1 Centre for Financial and Monetary Research „Victor Slăvescu”, Romanian Academy House, Building West, Floor 5, Room 5315, Romania, ORCID 0000-0002-3750-3248.
Romania, emildinga2004@gmail.com
PUBLISHED in Journal of Knowledge Dynamics, Volume 2, No2