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BL
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842747
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Halfpenny, Peter.
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Positivism and Sociology (RLE Social Theory) : : Explaining Social Life.
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken :: Taylor and Francis,, 2014.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
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1 online resource (142 pages).
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1317651391
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: 9781317651390
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1138788058
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9781138788053
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| Contents
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Comte and the Early Period; 2 Statistics; 3 Logical Positivism; 4 Laws and Explanation; 5 Theory and Evidence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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| Abstract
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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 social philosophers who were eager to develop an empirical science of society that would enable them to control social conduct - just as the physical sciences had provided the knowledge to tame nature. Ye.
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Positivism.
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Sociology-- History.
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Sociology-- Methodology.
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Positivism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- General.
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Sociology-- Methodology.
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Sociology.
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| Dewey Classification
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301
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HM19.H18 2014
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