Positivists
believe that science uses established methods and procedures and this can be applied to social science
social facts can be observed objectively, measured and quantified
Analysis of statistics can reveal correlations and causes and ultimately laws of human behaviour
they believe that the use of scientific method is highly desirable
This is entirely depends on your definition of science
Interpretivism
reject the view that scientific method is suitable for sociology
statistics are social constructions and so we can reject the idea of finding laws of human behaviour
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