Examples of positivism in the following topics:
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- This scientific approach, supported by Auguste Comte, is at the heart of positivism, a methodological orientation with a goal that is rigorous, objective scientific investigation and prediction.
- Since the nineteenth century, the idea of positivism has been extensively elaborated.
- Though positivism now has wider range of meanings than Comte intended, belief in a scientifically rigorous sociology has, in its essence, been carried on.
- Though quantitative methods, such as surveys, are most commonly associated with positivism, any method, quantitative or qualitative, may be employed scientifically.
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- This early sociological approach, supported by August Comte, led to positivism, an idea that data derived from sensory experience and that logical and mathematical treatments of such data are together the exclusive source of all authentic knowledge.
- The goal of positivism, like the natural sciences, is prediction.
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- This early sociological approach, supported by August Comte, led to positivism, a methodological approach based on sociological naturalism.
- The goal of positivism, like the natural sciences, is prediction.
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- This assumption led Spencer, like Comte, to adopt positivism as an approach to sociological investigation; the scientific method was best suited to uncover the laws he believed explained social life.
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- This approach to doing science is often termed positivism or empiricism.
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- This approach to doing science is often termed positivism (though perhaps more accurately should be called empiricism).