Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life

by Peter Halfpenny

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138995169
• ISBN13: 9781138995161
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"