142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the later moral statisticians who believed that quantification would provide the basis for a dispassionate analysis of social affairs; and on the other hand from the nineteenth-century post-Enlightenment... Read more
1. Comte and the Early Period 2. Statistics 3. Logical Positivism 4. Laws and Explanation 5. Theory and Evidence
Biography
Peter Halfpenny
