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    Positivism: the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge Positivism is a philosophy developed by Auguste Comte (widely regarded as the first true sociologist) in the middle of the 19th century that stated that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge‚ and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method. This view is sometimes referred to as a scientist ideology‚ and is often shared by technocrats who believe in the necessary

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    Positivism - Essay

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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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    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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    Legal Positivism

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    actually the law‚ and the fact that it is unjust‚ unwise‚ inefficient or imprudent is never sufficient reason for doubting it. According to positivism‚ law is a matter of what has been posited (ordered‚ decided‚ practiced‚ tolerated‚ etc.); as we might say in a more modern idiom‚ positivism is the view that law is a social construction."[2] Legal positivism was focusing on how to prevent possible conflict between concurrent rule(s) and successive norm(s)‚ or foundation of law(s) in reality so that

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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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    Individual Positivism

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    Positivism emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century‚ and sought to oppose traditional‚ Classical ways of criminological thinking. The theory tended to look at crime scientifically‚ in order to produce facts based around the key causes of crime and so‚ they could attempt to truly understand what kind of people offend and for what reasons. Offenders and offending behaviour had been understood before as voluntary concepts‚ where people had free will and the choice to commit crime (or not to)

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    Positivism Theory

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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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    Hart and Positivism

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    Joshua Brown Hart and Positivism According to Hart law consists of primary and secondary rules. The primary rules are the rules that are “rules of obligation.” (Hart. Pg 204) This means that primary rules are rules that obligate a person to do something or to not do something. For example‚ the first Amendment‚ “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the

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