Positivism

Quantitative Vs Qualitative methods Quantitative methods are generally used by positivists because they try to produce contributory explanations or even scientific laws regarding the world. They do not simply support the concept of natural science in their ontology and epistemology, but also use the same techniques. Yet, their methods frequently result in numbers, which are subsequently analysed for a final report or result. They aim to have no interpretation in the analysis but exact and…

people to the categories of either “man” or “woman,” which both the biological reductionist and the social-psychological approach assume to be homogenous. There are too many exceptions to the generalized “rules” of theories of gender which champion positivism, such as intersex people, transgenderism and transsexualism, gender fluidity, as well as a plethora of other identies which challenge or reject the traditional sex/gender binary. For this reason, such the endeavour to cleanly divide the…

How and why do police abuse their power of authority through Excessive Force, False Arrest, Malicious Prosecution, Unreasonable Search, and Tampering with the rights of Pre-trial Detainees? They are many different ways in which a police officer can abuse their power of authority; some of them abuse their authority by making false arrest, using too much force when trying to arrest someone, searching someone without a warrant or the person permission, this has been going on for years its becoming…

Theory 4 - Social Support A person’s social support becomes an important factor that helps define who they become. Social support encompasses not only interaction or relationships, but also includes anticipation, perceptions, quality of supportive interactions, behaviors, or social system (Hupcey, 1998, p. 1231). Research has shown that social support positively and causally related to mental health, physical health, and longevity. Having positive social support buffers the harmful physical…

Ethics and/or moral reasoning is the invisible set of rules we live by, or most of us live by anyway, that help us to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. A lot of these rules and guidelines are just so natural and automatic to us in nature that we don’t even have to think about them, we just know what is right and go along with it. These morals can change from person to person based on cultural and religious beliefs, but are overall very similar. “The identification of ethics…

As a freshman who has only been in college for a week I wanted to know what a college student life was like. I was interested in finding out how students socialize in the dining hall. For this reason, I wanted to know if they were influence by their race, age, physically reasons or personal relationships. I order to do these observations I went to the dining hall during lunch time. First of all, the students I observed were not aware of me taking notes of their behaviors. At first I just sat by…

Modernism and postmodernism literature The 20th century can be separated into two distinct periods; one characterized by the modernism movement and the other by postmodernism. Some consider that postmodernism was a response to modernism and therefore consider them as two aspects of the same movement. The Modern Age in English Literature started from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it followed the Victorian Age. Modernism refers to cultural movements of the late nineteenth and…

World War I, the first war in the world that involved multiple countries in many parts of the world to be involved in warfare broke out in Europe year of 1914 when the royal prince of Austria was assassinated. Mobilization upraises the conflict between the Allies and Central Powers, also known as the Ottoman Empire. The Allies consisted of United States of America, Great Britain, Japan, and France. The Ottoman Empire countries were Austria, Hungary, and Germany. During World War I, United States…

implies the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods with the same study (Al-Hamdan & Anthony, 2010). Qualitative and quantitative studies are the most common methods used in research. Each one is associated with a philosophical approach. Positivism, which considers the researcher as an outsider observer and independent from phenomena, is linked to quantitative research. In contrast, naturalism or constructivism, which considers the researcher interacting with phenomena, is linked to…

Assisting Children of Incarcerated Parents According to recent statistics show that more than 2.7 million children in the US alone have an incarcerated parent (Rutgers, 2014). In simple terms, that is a representative population of 1 in every 28 children. Statistics also show 10 million children that have experienced parental incarceration at some point. Moreover, about half of all children whose parents are incarcerated fall below ten years of age. It is for this reason that the society should…