Research Of The Scientificity Of Participatory Rural Appraisal In The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Social Science

Since the 1980 s,more and more international organizations implement rural poverty alleviation projects in China,along with the international organization of its advanced social survey methods,participatory rural appraisal(PRA).Participatory rural appraisal method in our country has experienced more than 30 years of development and evolution,now has become the international organization for poverty alleviation,government investment and agricultural college of social science data collection method widely used in scientific research.It is important to note that on the participatory rural appraisal method in the application of huge success at the same time,the scientific nature of the participatory rural appraisal method is ignored by academic circles,there is little research.Participatory rural appraisal method is not found invention,its scientific nature is not self-evident.Therefore,under the philosophy social science of participatory rural appraisal methods of scientific research is necessary.In this paper,from the Angle of philosophy of social science,participatory rural appraisal method,derived the theoretical kernel of participatory rural appraisal method-participatory,participatory,at the same time,the implementation of this method and means,and analyze the participatory rural appraisal method is scientific will start with participatory scientific analysis;In addition,the value orientation of farmers plays an important role in the participatory rural appraisal method,respect farmers value approach is scientific arguments are the important factors of this method is scientific.Full text will from three aspects to elaborates the participatory rural appraisal method is scientific,First of all,from the operating theory,operation significance not only exists in the method of quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis of the social science research method also has operation significance,and the quantitative method of measuring different operationalization of meaning,and the method of qualitative operationalization significance exists in the interpretation of the social phenomenon.Participatory rural appraisal method in the aspect of social phenomena to explain the huge success of explain the meaning of embodies the operationalization,so the participatory rural appraisal method under the operationalization theory is scientific.Second,participatory as the theoretical core of participatory rural appraisal method is in conformity with the intervention under the same theory,participatory intervention is within the scope of reasonable,so with the support of intervention under the same theory,objective and dependable data are acquired by using participatory rural appraisal method,participatory rural appraisal method is of science.Finally,the farmers' willingness to pay more attention to in the participatory rural appraisal method is in conformity with the social science methodology,respect farmers' will represent admit of dynamic object of study in social science research,thus has the scientific spirit.