What is positivism? Discuss Giddens’s critique of positivism.
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Positivism is the study of society using scientific evidence to present its method of operation and functioning. The scientific evidence includes qualitative results, statistics and experiments.
According to Anthony Giddens, positivism may be considered in two ways – one specific and one general. The specific version centers around social theory and epistemology.
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Antony Giddens is a very famous sociologist who proposed the theory of positivism and said that positivism are of two ways one is specific and the other is general.
Positivism helps in studying the society by different methods of operations and functioning of the society,it also helps in knowing the sociological theories behind positivism.
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