Positivism
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- Created on: 05-01-20 13:55
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- Positivism
- Key Ideas
- Human Behaviour comes from a Response to Facts
- This allows Cause and Effect Statements
- Direct Observation should be Used to Study Society
- Focus on Social Instructions, not the Individual
- Looks for Social Causes of Events
- Production of Qualitative Data allows Measurement and Evidence for Theory
- Human Behaviour comes from a Response to Facts
- Key Theorists
- COMTE
- Sociology is a Positive Science of Society
- Application of Positive, Natural Scientific Methods
- MARX
- Theories based on Cause and Effect Models
- Empirical Data used to Determine the Effects of Capitalism
- DURKHEIM
- Social Facts are "Things"
- Sociologists can be Objective and Value Free
- COMTE
- Key Ideas
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