Positivism

difficulty of morality over individuals, society and the law in determining what is just and virtuous. However, Straus’ What is Political Philosophy considers the Socratic political philosophy thesis in an effort to restore rationalism, by criticizing positivism…

their contexts. The texts challenge their social contexts, Barrett-Browning suggesting the power of love to challenge Victorian gender roles and Fitzgerald to challenge the American Dream, while also affirming their ideological contexts of Victorian positivism and modernism respectively in relation to the ability to understand meaning in relation to love. As such, while the contexts have significantly changes, the idea that everything changes is not wholly correct, as idealised love remains a…

disparities among subgroups, develop potential interventions to level the playing field for the marginalized groups, and use our findings to challenge the system responsible for the disparities. Sipe and Constable (1996), present two characterizations of positivism, interpretivism and…

A Common Man or a Tragic Hero In the essay, Tragedy and the Common Man, written in 1949 by Arthur Miller is revealed the comprehensive view of the author concerning the notion of tragedy. One of his deepest opinions is that the common man is as capable of experiencing abundant tragedy, as much as kings and queens are. In additions, Miller believes that the sense of tragedy comes into being when the character is ready to sacrifice all he has, to preserve one thing; “ his sense of personal…

Jay White (1999) declared “all research is fundamentally a matter of storytelling and narration. Any type of knowledge, even scientific knowledge, that we might have about public administration is basically a story grounded in language and discourse and expressed in narrative form” (p. 6). This is known as the linguistic turn, sparked in the late 1960s by such postmodern theorists as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault, and poses interesting…

Also, I draw some details from the readings we had in class this semester in the comparison. The main argument here is that though both the theorists work on classification, their focuses are different. While Durkheim is inclined to positivism, Foucault is on the edge of constructionism. Durkheim studies “how” classification was formed, Foucault describes “why” classification happened in contrast. And, with respect to Durkheim’s emphasis on the power of structure and collective behaviors…

In the context of social research, ‘paradigm’ refers to a system of ideas used by a group of researchers in order to create knowledge (Fossey, 2002 p.718). Positivism is an example of a social research paradigm. The positivist paradigm refers to the ‘study of social reality utilizing the conceptual framework, the techniques of observation and measurement, the instruments of mathematical analysis, and the procedures of inference of the natural sciences’ Suggests Corbetta (2003 P.10). In order to…

PS 331 Participation Exercise Edelman 1. The Political Spectacle a. Edelman defines the political spectacle as, “Accounts of political issues, problems, crises, threats, and leaders now become devices for creating disparate assumptions and beliefs about the social and political world rather than factual statements. The very concept of ‘fact’ becomes irrelevant because every meaningful political object and person is an interpretation that reflects and perpetuates an ideology. Taken together,…

he was not forced to perform the act and did out of free will as he would have desisted from engaging in the sexual activities, Liska & Messner (1999). Hence, distinguishing classicism and positivism approach to criminology regardless of the sociological reasons for one to commit a crime as suggests in positivism, the foundation argument of free will remain constant and relevant (O’Neill, 2004). The second assumption is on deterrence which Liska & Messner (1999) bases it on the punishment aspect…

nursing practice. The concept of demarcation was outlined by Reisch (1998) to identify the boundary between science and pseudoscience (as cited in Schick, 2000). First, he introduced the “ simple demarcation” criteria, which adapted the logical positivism view and its empirical methodology in recognizing the scientific knowledge. Then, he introduced the second concept, which is “ network demarcation” as the methodology to find the interconnections among the acceptable different field of sciences…