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A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology
Bibliography: leaves 232-239.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9932 A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology Romm, Norma R A Von Broembsen, Marlese Glass, H G L Sociology Bibliography: leaves 232-239. The debate between positivists on the one hand, and anti-positivists such as Habermas and Marcuse on the other, about the possibility of an objective value-free social science seems to have reached an impasse: Positivists continue to assert that the facts and laws of social life are objective givens which can be apprehended by a social science modelling itself on the natural science methodology. (There is disagreement among positivists about whether the natural science methodology is based on inductive or deductive logic, and thus about exactly what would be implied by a transference of this methodology to social science). Positivists justify their quest for objective knowledge of the laws and facts of social life, by claiming that such knowledge is empirically grounded and ipso facto capable of validation. 2014-12-10T08:08:53Z 2014-12-10T08:08:53Z 1982 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9932 eng application/pdf Department of Sociology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Sociology Romm, Norma R A A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
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| title | A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| title_full | A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| title_fullStr | A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| title_full_unstemmed | A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| title_short | A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| title_sort | critical examination of habermas and marcuse s attacks on positivism with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology |
| topic | Sociology |
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