Positivism and its critique
Key points
- Positivist sociology
- Auguste Comte
- Herbert Spencer
- Critique of Positivism
- Post-positivism
Previous year questions
Questions asked from this topic in UPSC Sociology Optional:
- What are the shortfalls of positivist philosophy that gave rise to the non-positivist methods of studying social reality?
- Phenomenological perspectives in Sociology reject many of the assumption of positivism, Comment.
- Explain ethnomethodological and phenomenological perspectives as critique of positivism.
- Examine the basic postulates of positivism and post-positivism.
- Critically examine positivistic approach in sociology studies.