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logical
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Was there such a state as logical positivism ?
sociological
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His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular.
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These characteristic ideas of functionalism are found running throughout the theories of sociological positivism , evolutionary social theories, and pragmatism.
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In normativist language the style of sociological positivism is that of constructivist rationalism.
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The main criticism of sociological positivism is founded on the vagueness of the central concepts of the theory.
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Empiricism and positivism have been put to flight in anthropology, philosophy, aesthetics, economics.
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Furthermore, critical theory departs form positivism in understanding the facts of culture in terms of a social totality.
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His ideas on sovereignty and social organization seem to have been influenced by sociological positivism and by Duguit in particular.
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His target of attack here is positivism , which we can understand as the identification of natural science with knowledge itself.
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Realism directed its challenge to the attempt to construct an autonomous science of law which was rooted in legal positivism .
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Sociological positivism was one such method.
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Some of these differences were rooted in the extent to which the writers embraced positivism or Idealism.
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There was all this talk of positivism .