I did not know the term "methodics".
In fact, many jobs confuse methodology and "sets of methods." We must
remember that many academic works from other areas bring a chapter
called "methodology".
This inappropriate use of the term can be the basis of this
"confusion". I do not know if there's how to adjust it. It seems to me
that is culturally embedded in scientific circles.
Semantic alignment is always a great topic.
2015-05-26 5:46 GMT+01:00 Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Stefanie,
>
> Distinct from the thread on “Re: Design methods in current undergraduate curricula,” you asked about the distinctions between and among several words. This is a brief note on words related to method.
>
> One of the great difficulties in methods study is the difference in usage of the term methodology. I know that methodology is sometimes used to mean "a collection of related methods.” This gives rise to confusion. You have seen a definition of methodology as "a theoretical framework, set of principles, or strategy that guides in the adoption and development of a particular procedure and its associated methods.” This is incorrect.
>
> Methodology is the study of method.
>
> Thomas Mautner (1996: 267) defines methodology as "1. The discipline which investigates and evaluates methods of inquiry, of validation, of teaching, etc. 2. a theory within that discipline. Note that methodology is about method and not the same as method."
>
> Mario Bunge (1999: 178) distinguishes between method, as "a regular and well-specified procedure for doing something: an ordered sequence of goal-directed operations" and methodology as "the study of methods. The normative branch of epistemology; a knowledge technology. Often
> confused with method, as in "the methodology used in the present research.”
>
> A method is how to do something. There are hundreds of thousands of methods for doing different thing, perhaps millions. Methodology is the comparative study of method.
>
> It is correct to speak of “a method” or of “methods.” There may be one method or many methods under discussion. It is incorrect to speak of “a methodology.” There is only the field or subject of methodology, the comparative study of method, no matter how many or how few methods one may study at at given moment. It is even possible that one may examine a single method in a methodological study: while methodology is the comparative of method, presuming more than one, a single study on a specific may contribute to the larger comparative field.
>
> Mario Bunge employs a useful term that we might well adopt: “methodics.” Methodics means “a collection of related methods.”
>
> Bunge (1999: 179) defines the term methodics as “The collection of methods employed in a research field. Not to be confused with methodology.”
>
> The terms “procedure,” “practice,” and “routine” are somewhat fuzzier than the terms method, methodology, and methodic. To address them requires a longer note than I have time to write at the moment.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
>
> —
>
> Reference
>
> Bunge, Mario. 1999. The Dictionary of Philosophy. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
>
> Friedman, Ken. 2015. Research Writing Workshop. May 2015. Shanghai, China: College of Design and Innovation.
>
> Mautner, Thomas. 1996. A Dictionary of Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell.
>
> --
>
> Stefanie di Russo wrote:
>
> —snip--
>
> What, in your opinion, is the difference between a procedure, practice,
> methodology and routine?
>
> Speaking in context of practice (and not from a formal academic
> perspective), I understood methodology to be defined as a theoretical
> framework, set of principles, or strategy that guides in the adoption and
> development of a particular procedure and its associated methods. I would
> argue that HCD, or even design thinking (DT), as a framework of principles
> could be classified as a (or the?) methodology for practicing designers as
> both the procedures and methods can vary under its framework.The *practice*
> of HCD/DT is to gain experience in applying and embodying these unique
> principles through the development of specific procedures (and methods)
> guided by the principles dictated from HCD/DT. A cookbook without guiding
> principles, is in my mind, simply a collection of independent recipes.
>
> —snip—
>
>
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