Validity and challenges of the epistemology of social sciences in the second decade of the 21st century

The article discusses some problems faced by social science in the 21st century with the development of technology, especially social media, creating new challenges to the process of understanding society and culture. At the same time, it is reaffirm the validity of social science epistemology by insisting on fundamentals questions about knowledge. Among those questions, it is highlighted the question of how over the why regarding the object of research. It concludes that binary distinctions over which social sciences have been created should give way to multiple distinctions for better fit into the complexity of the social world.