Is Political Science as Natural Science?
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This article would like to describe the state of knowledge on the political science which was under natural science dominant. This article had four parts. The first, described the human knowledge acquisition. Second, explained the history and definition of science. Third, debated on science that focus to the difference of substance and the comparison between natural science and social science. And the final part, discussion on the problems of natural science methodology in the social science. The study discovered that the political science is not as the natural science in terms of ontology, epistemology, methodology. Political science educator shouldn’t stick only with a quantitative methodology but should consider the compatibility of methodology, context, substantial and pay more attention to value studies and qualitative methodology.
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