-
social realm requires a
different epistemology.
Fundamental to that
antipositivist epistemology is the
belief that the
concepts and
language that researchers...
- of the 20th century,
positivism has
declined under criticism from
antipositivists and
critical theorists,
among others, for its
alleged scientism, reductionism...
-
phenomena as a
subset of
natural phenomena.
Broad support exists for the
antipositivist claim that
crucial qualitative differences mean that one
cannot explain...
-
being mistakenly linked with a
theoretical empiricism. The
extent of
antipositivist criticism has also diverged, with many
rejecting the
scientific method...
-
Kantian concern for the
limits of
perception strongly influenced the
antipositivist sociological movement in late 19th-century Germany,
particularly in...
- not
address 20th-century
social problems, they
applied the
methods of
antipositivist sociology, psychoanalysis, and existentialism. The School's sociologic...
- therapy. The
existentialists would also
influence social psychology,
antipositivist micro-sociology,
symbolic interactionism, and post-structuralism, with...
- societies. The term was
presented by the
profoundly influential German antipositivist Max Weber,
though its
themes bear
parallel with the
critiques of modernity...
-
system theorists such as
Parsons can be
viewed as at
least partially antipositivist.
Parsons was not a
functionalist per se, but an
action theorist. In...
-
April 1853. One
facet of this
conversion may have
aligned him with an
antipositivist position.
Maxwell had
studied and
commented on
electricity and magnetism...
