Identifying different theoretical perspectives

Exercise 8: Identifying different theoretical perspectives

In the book we present three theoretical perspectives which are used in the study of society, these are:

• positivism
• interpretivism
• critical social science

Look at the three articles to which we have links below:

Try to work out which of the three approaches which we outline is closest to the approach taken in these articles:

http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/abraham.licit.press.en.html

http://www.cedro-uva.org/lib/gardner.experts.html

http://qed.emcdda.eu.int/journal/bulletin29.shtml

Answer 1:

We have categorised the first of these as positivist, the second as critical and the third as interpretive.