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Positivism and Its Critique: Dimensions of Positivism, Main Features of Positivism, Most Important Dissatisfaction

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Introduction

Early sociologists faced two fundamental questions about the future course of the discipline:

  • What should be the subject matter of the discipline?
  • What should be the methodology in sociology?

Influenced by the prevailing atmosphere of rationalism and science, they too attempted to define the subject matter and the method in scientific and objective terms. Therefore, early sociologists like Saint Simon, Comte, Spenser, and Durkheim laid the foundation of Positivistic theory.

Positivism and Its Critique
  • They asserted that society is also governed by certain fixed laws and therefore, is expect…

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