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1. The Relationship Between Positivism, Interpretivism and Sociological Methods

   • Interpretivism
     • Social Action Theory
       • Bottom Up
       • Micro
       • Studies Individuals
       • Meanings and Reasons
     • In-Depth Approaches
       • Detailed
         • Qualitative
       • Observations
         • Participant
         • Non-Participant
       • In-Depth Interviews
         • Open Ended Questions
     • Examples: Interactionists and Postmodernists
   • Positivist
     • Structural
       • Top Down
       • Macro
       • Social Systems
       • Important to look at society as whole
     • Scientific Approach
       • Objective
       • Statistics
       • Questionnaires
       • Quantitative
         • Official Stats
         • Experimental Techniques
         • Replicable
     • Examples: Functionalists. Marxists and Feminists
     • Key Sociologists
       • Comte
         • Only want information that can be OBJECTIVELY OBSERVED and CLASSIFIED
       • Durkheim
         • Collected data on social facts
           • Suicide rates
             • More religious less likely to
             • Recessions= an increase in suicides
           • Humans have little/no choice about how they behave
     • HOT
       • Sociology and the Age of Enlightenment
         • Sociological thinking traced to 17th and mid-18th Century
         • Basic assumption of Enlightenment was that scientific laws had been designed with a view to human happiness