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Positivism and Sociology (Rle Social Theory): Explaining Social Life

Positivism and Sociology (Rle Social Theory): Explaining Social Life

Paperback

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138995169
ISBN13: 9781138995161
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In order to provide a clear basis from which to assess controversial questions about the contribution of the positivist traditions to sociology, the book reviews twelve different important uses of the term 'positivism' that have emerged at different times since the mid-nineteenth century, when Auguste Comte coined both 'positivism' and 'sociology'. This review is conducted by examining the historical development of the two independent roots of modern sociological positivism - positivist philosophy and statistics - and by analysing logical positivist philosophy, which in many ways defined the course of twentieth century philosophy of the social (as well as the natural) sciences.

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