Positivism And Statistics In Social Science

George Steinmetz maps how positivism and its rivals shaped each of the human sciences, from sociology and economics to anthropology and history.

George Steinmetz

A clear account of the two great methods of social science, positivist and interpretive, and of how phenomenology tries to bridge them.

Koshy Tharakan

Carl Ratner contrasts positivism with contextualism in cross-cultural psychology and argues that culture cannot be studied as a set of separate variables.

Carl Ratner

A case study from the Czech Republic that shows how positivist ethnology and constructivist anthropology read the same village identity in very different ways.

Marek Jakoubek