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    Post Office Protocol

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    Auguste Comte

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    Auguste Comte Nicole Ogunlana Dr. Carl Lloyd Gardiner Sociology 1301 28th March 2012 Auguste Comte and contribution to Sociology Auguste Comte was born in January 20th 1789 and died in 1857 of cancer. Auguste was the founder of French positivism and widely accredited with the establishment of sociology. Therefore Auguste Comte is known as the father of sociology. Auguste was a Roman Catholics like his parents Louis Comte a tax official and Rosalie Comte; however he abandoned the ideals

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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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    strengths‚ disadvantages and weaknesses of a positivist approach to social sciences The profusion of use and multifariousness of meaning of the word positivism results in a need for any essay on the subject to first give its own precise definition for its use of the term‚ distinguishing its particular context from its use in other contexts. The term positivism‚ first coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte in the nineteenth-century‚ was first originally confined to the boundaries of philosophy and natural

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    Introduction: Before joining my Masters in Business administration‚ I have done few researches at my working places‚ not knowing that there are some many methods‚ approaches‚ etc. Thanks to Dr. Stephen Sommerville‚ for teaching me to do research in the professional way. Let my first research be the critical review of my own positionality i.e. who am I to me and in the others point of view? Does my positionality affect the research works I took or will take? Sitting back and thinking about

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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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    Licensed to: iChapters User Research Method and Methodology in Finance and Accounting Second Edition Bob Ryan Robert W. Scapens Michael Theobold Australia . Canada . Mexico . Singapore . Spain . United Kingdom . United States Licensed to: iChapters User Research Method and Methodology in Finance and Accounting Copyright © Bob Ryan‚ Robert W. Scapens and Michael Theobold 2002 _______________________________________________________________________ The text of this publication‚ or

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    What is the value of research produced in the social science? Knowledge‚ produced through research investigation‚ is generally valued more highly than common sense or an opinion based understanding of the world. Humans are naturally inquisitive‚ with an instinctive urge to obtain new information and motivated by a need to discover more about society and the world they live in. However without a systematic methodology‚ these ideas and ways of thinking‚ tend to be based on a persons own experiences

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    Sociology Not a Science

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    “Sociology cannot and should not be a science”. To what extent do sociological arguments and evidence support this view? This statement‚ stating that sociology is not a science‚ is debated throughout sociology by two theoretical positions; positivism and interpretivism. The Positivist theory is based on the idea that explanations for events or people should be based on empirical scientific methods. They see the world as full of testable realities and use quantitative methods to try and support their

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    in two main ways‚ positivism and interpretivism. ‘For many observers‚ this diversity is a sign of chronic intellectual failure and as an indication of the chaotic state into which the subject has fallen and cannot escape’ (Scott‚ J. 2011. P. 1)‚ however‚ a social researcher may argue that the differences in how research is conducted leads to a broader and more rounded understanding of the social world‚ even if they may maintain that their chosen method is correct. Positivism is the approach which

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