ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Law Of Three Stages, Symbolic Interactionism, Grounded Theory
6 Sep 2018
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Jackson article - key methodological approaches in the social. Three important contemporary approaches in the social sciences: the positivist approach/the structural approach. Comte proposed that societies go through three stages in their development: theological (dominated by religion), metaphysical (dominated by abstract speculation), and positive (dominated by scientific thinking) Positivist stage is one where society is organized according to scientific observations and experiments. it is predominant approach across the social science disciplines. Positivists are interested in understanding the patterns of human activity. They search out ways of testing theories of human behaviour. Critique of positivist researchers have become overly impressed with the numbers and the tools used to process them and have lost sight of the goal of trying to understand human behaviour. Objective approach: designed to minimize bias, is impersonal, seeks its authority in fact, not opinion. Logical approach: deductive rules, systematic approach, techniques such as statistical analysis.
