Anthropology in Eastern Europe between positivism and constructivism

George Steinmetz maps how positivism and its rivals shaped each of the human sciences, from sociology and economics to anthropology and history.

George Steinmetz

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