Positivism and Its Others in the Social Sciences

A clear account of the two great methods of social science, positivist and interpretive, and of how phenomenology tries to bridge them.

Koshy Tharakan

Russell Keat examines the positivist idea that social science should copy physics, and what that means for the use of statistics.

Russell Keat

Carl Ratner contrasts positivism with contextualism in cross-cultural psychology and argues that culture cannot be studied as a set of separate variables.

Carl Ratner

A case study from the Czech Republic that shows how positivist ethnology and constructivist anthropology read the same village identity in very different ways.

Marek Jakoubek