Antipositivism

The antipositivism is in the social science of the opinion that the empiricism and the scientific method in the development of social theory and empirical social research must be rejected. In the social sciences, research methods that expressly require a qualitative supplement to quantitative surveys are also referred to as anti-positivistic.

In the philosophy of law , positions are called anti-positive, which tie in with natural law or the law of reason and reject legal positivism . Philosophical positions of antipositivism are, for example, idealism , phenomenology or critical rationalism .

In psychology , antipositivism characterizes the view that there are empirically intangible levels of consciousness , as for example in the opposition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are expressed.

Representative of antipositivism

• Max Weber
• Ferdinand Tönnies

See also

• Auguste Comte
• Sociology of education
• Frankfurt School
• Critical theory
• positivism
• Post-structuralism
• Social action
• Symbolic interactionism
• Understand

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Heinze - Qualitative Social Research: Introduction, Methodology and Research Practice -, Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, 16
2. ↑ Ulrich Broich - Cult and Decay of the Subject as a Theme of English Literature at the End of the 19th Century -, in: Reto Luzius Fetz , Roland Hagenbüchle & Peter Schulz (Eds.): History and Prehistory of Modern Subjectivity , Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, (Volume 1: Pages 1020-1040, here 1029)