Positivism

FORREST GUMP: THE USE OF HIS SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION The sociological imagination is the very foundation of the science of sociology and the understanding of the sociological aspects of the world around us. Forrest Gump is a perfect example of someone using their sociological imagination. The movie is based on Forrest telling strangers stories about his life. They were simple stories to him, but the movie viewers got a deeper look into his impact on society from the 1940s to the 1980s. Forrest…

The article International Interventions to Build Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sudan, written by Alexandra Avdeenko and Michael Gilligan, analyse community driven development (CDD) programs conducted in the post-civil war Sudanese communities. This analysis provides an interesting and relevant analysis of the effects of CDD programs, and more broadly, the effects of developmental aid in areas that have been devastated by civil war. It is important for this type of research…

his seemingly superhuman motivation and desire to accomplish his goals of both unifying Western Brazil and Coastal Brazil and helping to further the rights of indigenous peoples was rooted in his ideological beliefs, namely the pseudo-religion of Positivism. However, Rondon's ascetic personality not only helped him, but also hurt him by putting him at odds with various national institutions at the time. Much of what Rondon desired and wanted was paradoxical in nature. A prime example of this…

that exists in today’s society and the impact felt by globalization and the evolution of intellectual property law of moved well passed it’s original legal intention. Multidisciplinary approaches allow for a continued isolationist approach through positivism, interdisciplinary approaches, while filling gaps existent between disciplines, still fall short of addressing the complex nature of IP. It is only in a transdisciplinary approach that we find a holistic measure of the impacts of IP in the…

psychological positivism, discuss the ways in which crime might be considered normal in society. Normal is defined as “the usual, typical, or expected state or condition.” (Oxford Dictionaries | English, 2017) In reference to criminology, psychological positivism sees crime as a thing people are subjected to in every-day life and is ‘normal’ in that certain people are predisposed to crime due to underlying personality and psychological traits. At the heart of psychological positivism are…

Assignment Three Question One Drawing upon psychological positivism discuss the ways in which crime might be considered normal in society. Psychological Positivism is the scientific understanding of crime and the criminality of the offender. This will show and allow you the comprehension about the distinction between “normal” and the “deviant” and apprehend the specifics of what triggered the rise within a deviant and the embarking start of someone whom may be an everyday normal citizen to a…

definition of legal terms such as legal validity, laws, and legal systems. Legal positivism suggests that there are no moral constraints on the validity of legal rules. The positivist community agrees that it is possible to have legal systems without moral constraints, but they do not agree on whether there are some legal systems that experience such moral constraints. Hart supports the inclusive perspective of positivism which suggests that it is possible for the society to integrate the law…

St. Thomas Aquinas believes that a law is nothing other than an ordinance of reason to show that the law is for the common good, and it is executed by one that cares for the community, and that it must also be clear to those that are under that law (Adams 85). Law is said to bind one to act; therefore, a law is a rule and measurement of acts by which one is either induced to act or restrained from acting (Adams 85). Aquinas discusses four laws; Eternal Law, Natural Law, Divine Law, and Human Law…

In this section Meade discusses positivism, positives were a group of scientific and technocratic advisors who believed that lives could be improved through science and modernization; however, the problem with this kind of thinking was that they believed science was the answer to everything and they failed to see the importance of concepts such as beliefs, culture and religion. The first primary source is an excerpt from the book civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer…

The biological positivism theory emerged in the late 19th century and marked a shift in the way that society looks at criminals. Prior to its conception, the criminal justice system was based on the classical theory which stated that, because everyone has free will, individuals who commit crime make a rational choice to do so (Bradley & Walters, 2011). Biological positivism was founded in an attempt to answer the question: “What makes a person choose to commit crime?”, something that classicism…