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    Positivism refers to a set of epistemological perspectives and philosophies of science which hold that the scientific method is the best approach to uncovering the processes by which both physical and human events occur. Though the positivist approach has been a ’recurrent theme in the history of western thought from the Ancient Greeks to the present day’ [1] the concept was developed in the early 19th century by the philosopher and founding sociologist‚ Auguste Comte. | Positivism was a method

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    What is positivism

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    Marie Callinan What is positivism? Positivism is a well established philosophy within the natural sciences. In the early nineteenth century it became an integral aspect of social science methodology. In Baconian tradition‚ positivism is the precise and objective observation of an object from a scientifically detached position. Though its definition is broad‚ there are fundamentally six assumptions in positivistic philosophy and three distinct generations that negotiate with these assumptions

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    Positivism‚ (also referred to as ‘empiricism’) is often used to indicate that this approach to understanding criminality is scientific. The term ’positivism ’ (or in its more sophisticated form "Logical Positivism") is often used to refer to an approach that asserts it utilizes science or the scientific method (their version of science) to understand the causes of criminality and thus the solutions to solving it. Positivism is an epistemological position or a theory of knowledge which assets that

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    This essay shall begin by defining what positivism is‚ and how it could be used to approach the study of poverty and what problems there might be with this quantitative method. It will then move on to discuss phenomenology‚ a qualitative method‚ to come to a conclusion on which method (if any) is more useful than the other. The basic philosophy of positivism is that our social world is similar to the natural world in that both are governed by particular ‘laws’; for example‚ just as ‘cause and effect’

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    Compare and contrast positivist and interpretive perspectives underpinning social research- This essay intends to investigate by comparing and contrasting positivist and interpretive perspectives that surround social research. It will look into the use of methods such as quantitative and qualitative research and the effects and outcomes that this has in relation to social research. This will include the variations amongst them in both a positive and negative light. Before research can be undertaken

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    Logical Positivism

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    Also known as logical empiricism‚ rational empiricism or neo-positivism‚ logical positivism is the name given in 1931 by A.E Blumberg and Herbert Feigl to a set of philosophical ideas put forward by the Vienna Circle. This Vienna Circle was a group of early twentieth century philosophers who sought to re-conceptualize empiricism by means of their interpretation of then recent advances in the physical and formal sciences. Hence‚ the Vienna Circle represented a radical “anti-metaphysical” stance which

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    Legal Positivism

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    Lucille Ann Carreon‚ Joseph Valerian Timtim‚ Kimberly Loide Viernes‚ Gerald Paul Nature of Law Legal Positivism There are a lot of theorists who pioneered in the concept of Legal Positivism.But among them are two leading theorists who mainly contributed on this idea and further argued on each other’s respective opposite views. One of which is John Austin‚ who holds that legal positivism is the nature of law which deals with the existence and contents of law based on social facts and not on

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    Durkheim

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    Durkheim: Anomic Division of Labor The first pathological form that results from the division of labor‚ according to Durkheim‚ is the anomic division of labor. This fairly common‚ negative aspect of the division of labor occurs when the individuals become isolated by their repetitive‚ specialized tasks‚ and forget that they are parts of the whole‚ i.e. society. Examples of this occur in industries and factories which detach workers from their employers. In order to fix this anomic division of

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    organism and no less complicated than it” (Wittgenstein). But first‚ we must have an understanding of what logical positivism is and what this school of philosophy believes. Logical positivists’ view is solely based on something called verification and meaning. To understand what verification and meaning is‚ there are two other very vital elements in understanding logical positivism: tautologies and empirical statements. Tautologies are statements that are known to be true through logical analysis

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    Natural Law and Positivism

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    The question has asked to compare the approaches of natural law and legal positivism in regard to the statement “law is quite distinct from‚ and its validity is in no way dependent upon‚ morals.” Both approaches agree that morality can and usually does play a role in the law‚ but there is a disagreement as to whether there is any role it must play‚ as discussed by Denise Meyerson. The first appearance of natural law was over 2500 years ago in ancient Greece‚ the natural approach of law believes that

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