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Uses of Metaphor and Analogy in Social Studies

Korean Studies Quarterly / Korean Studies Quarterly, (P)2671-8197; (E)2733-936X
2008, v.31 no.1, pp.131-159
https://doi.org/10.25024/ksq.31.1.200803.131
Lee Ki Hong
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Abstract

Metaphor and analogy which use the known to express and to examine the unknown generate new insight and information about the subject by transfer and projection of the knowledge about the source. They are useful and promising way of thinking used in everyday life and scientific inquiry. They hint at potential similarities and analogies between the source and subject, thereby suggesting that scientists advance the entities, mechanisms and structures governing the behavior of the source as putative analogues for the unknown entities, mechanisms, and structures underlying the behavior of the subject. Thereby they facilitate scientists' attempts to explain their poorly understood subject matter. And they play a expressive, heuristic and cognitive functions in social studies too. So social scientists should use metaphor, analogy and model adequately and exactly to produce social scientific knowledge.

keywords
비유(metaphor), 유추(analogy), 모델(model), 과학적 발견(scientific discovery), 과학적 상상력(scientific imagination), 이론구성(theory construction)


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