Abstract
This article observes a paradigm shift occurred in several disciplines of social science whichalso differs in theoretical and methodological aspects from science pursuing objectivity. Theinterpretative social sciences primarily focus on the study of meaning and sets texts and talksinto the centre of understanding. Social facts are taking place in an intersubjective sphere,namely among each other. In this paper they are consequently called ‘socially meaningful facts’.Therefore, understanding and meaning of these socially meaningful facts can be study withoutsnapping social reality by means of different survey techniques, which would also necessarilyreduce the richness of social meanings.In this paper the vote is given for the transition of discourse approach into a paradigm.A couple of aspects are introduced in order to make an attempt to prove its scientific significance. On the other hand misunderstandings are also falsified. According to these misconceptions, atext-based approach and an actual postmodern scientific scheme is nothing else than a literaryproject, which also denies the pure existence of reality and only considers all previous knowledgeas relative. Instead of that, this paper states that every single fact of society has meaning whichis mediated through narratives by the language itself.