ISBN:
9781138788053
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (142 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory) : Explaining Social Life
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology''s positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment social philosophers who were eager to develop an empirical science of society that would enable them to control social conduct - just as the physical sciences had provided the knowledge to tame nature. Ye
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Comte and the Early Period; 2 Statistics; 3 Logical Positivism; 4 Laws and Explanation; 5 Theory and Evidence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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