Positivism and Interpretism

Postivism and Interpretism 

Postivism: Prefer scienitfic quatitative methods. 

Social surveys, structured questionnaires and offical statistics as they present good reliability and represtativeness. This type of sociology is more intrested in trends and patterns rathere than individuals. By adopting scentific techniques sociologists should be able, eventually, to uncoverthe laws that govern society just like scentisits have discovered the physical world. Compative methods is typically used - where sociologists…