Positivists Flashcards
1
Q
What kind of facts
A
Objective facts about social world
2
Q
What can you look for?
A
Correlations (high social class and educational achievement)
3
Q
What can correlations represent
A
Casual relationships
4
Q
What is it possible to discover
A
Laws of human behaviour (higher social classes get higher qualifications
5
Q
Human behaviour is shaped by
A
External stimuli rather than internal
6
Q
Only study what yoy observee
A
Unscientific to study people’s emotions
7
Q
What methods do they support
A
Questionnaires and official statistics that provide factual, statistical data
