Organized into five chapters, the text begins by problematizing the use of
positivist methods in sociocultural inquiry, specifically, the protocols of natural sciences that "authorize coders to isolate facts from their individually meaningful contexts and then throw these bits into an independent diagram that challenges our imagination" (p.
This Article argues against a
positivist view of international environmental law that (i) conceives of states as unitary entities that speak with one voice in pursuit of a single national interest, (1) and that focuses on (ii) authoritative sources of law and (iii) the binding force of these sources of law.
While my entry point is from the perspective of a (mostly) quantitative researcher who is (loosely) in the "
positivist" tradition (i.e., the application of scientific methods to social phenomena in order to identify generalizable, verifiable, replicable, and falsifiable causal relationships), I compare and contrast this approach with both "critical studies" (i.e., research designed to illuminate and challenge social, economic, political, and cultural structures and processes of domination and subordination) and "cultural studies" (i.e., research designed to uncover the ways in which meaning is inferred on and from the artifacts and experiences of everyday life).
This Article aims to fill that gap by revisiting the intellectual context in which the entrapment defense arose and, in particular, by linking the doctrine's development to the contributions and arguments of
positivist criminology.
The
Positivist, Pompous, Polite, Plum Environment of the Literary Milieu in America Philip Larkin Reviewed by Paul Muldoon in the New York Times
FROM THE START my brother, Dinos, and I speculated that the media would absorb anything we gave it, that even the most traumatizing image we could produce would ultimately be accommodated through some kind of
positivist discourse.
The text avoids leading anti-imperialist MPs and pays much more attention to the contribution of
Positivist and socialist thinkers.
The
positivist approach to explaining law looks at first quite plausible: to know how to decide a case we must first identify the legal norm that governs the case, and to know that we need to know how to identify legal norms in general.
The court could be seen as adopting a
positivist conception of international law, in which it mechanically interpreted article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
Gibson analyzes Italian prisons between unification and World War I, when the new Italian state developed a hybrid prison system based primarily on
positivist principles, but also incorporated characteristics from its Catholic and Enlightenment past.
The challenge to the
positivist epistemology was undertaken during the course of the third great debate in IR.
The
positivist approach to heritage is grounded in the historic fabric of a building, and privileges the building as an object.