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What do Positivists use?
Positivists use reliable methods that give Quantitative data. Looks at institutions in society. Macrosociology.

1)Sociology should be scientific and analyse social facts. Social facts are things that affect behaviour and can be easily measured. External things like laws, not internal things like people's opinions.

2) Use statistics to measure the relationships between different factors. They're interested in cause and affect relationships e.g. the factors that cause underachievement in schools.

3) Use sources like questionnaires & official statistics. Objective & Reliable.
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Author: Lex26
Main topic: Education
Topic: Research Methods & Key Words
Published: 31.05.2010

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