Theoretical approaches Flashcards
1
Q
what is positivism?
A
- structural
- society can be studied using similar techniques
- quantitive
2
Q
what do positivists believe?
A
- external social forces causing ideas
- identify cause and effect
- Durkheim
- what can’t be measured shouldn’t be measured- feelings
3
Q
what is interpretivism?
A
- social action
- how people interpret the world around them
- understanding small-scale interaction key to understand society
- qualitative data
4
Q
what do interpretivists believe?
A
- gain in-depth understanding of how see and understand world around them
- verstehen ( to get inside someones head)- understand from point of view
5
Q
social facts
A
anything that influences ur behaviour
6
Q
positivist researcher
A
Durkheim
7
Q
what did Durkheim use in his suicide study?
A
coronary STATS- death certificates
8
Q
what is a multivariate analysis?
A
comparing incidence of social factors to particular event eg suicide to gender/religion
9
Q
what are the 4 classified suicides?
A
- egoistic
- altruistic- willing to die for country
- anomic
- fatalism
10
Q
egoistic suicide
A
when things go wrong and there’s no one to support you so kill self
11
Q
altruistic suicide
A
willing to die for country
12
Q
anomic suicide
A
society not controlling lives enough so kill self
13
Q
fatalistic suicide
A
too much control so kill self
14
Q
what are criticisms durkheims suicide study?
A
- unfalsifiable- can’t measure it, can’t test= unscientific
- not good way to study suicide- ungeneralisable
- demhumanising
- no individual understanding
15
Q
interpretivist researcher
A
Atkinson
