Archeological Approach as a Qualitative Methodology in Humanities Research

This paper aims to study the archeology of knowledge and its applicability in the field of human sciences research. Qualitative research works and particularly the archeological ones have caught the attention of researchers since they have shown that the nature and complexity of truth needs more applicable tools and approaches. The archeological approach as a postmodernist method tries to investigate the network of relations that shape the formation of concepts in an applicable way without assuming predetermined relations. This approach is, in fact, a historical analysis but its way of reading and analyzing history involves a methodology which aims to make connections among the philosophical presumptions and frameworks of administrations and institutions and those of detailed experiences of life. It works by being classified under four main parts. The first part or 'formation of object's discusses the involved elements under three specific categories. The second part or 'enunciative mode' explains how these objects get fixed in administrations and institutions and to what extent their determinacy could be. The third part involves what is called 'formation of concepts,' while the last part or 'the formation of strategie's draws on the mechanisms that account for the conditions of change and discontinuity in these fixed objects. The paper concludes that archeological methodology prepares the way for a pluralistic way of thinking which itself leads to critical thinking. It also could provide a suitable archive of proper answers in this field of research.