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Examine the basic postulates of positivism and post-positivism.

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  • Sociology as a Science

Auguste Comte, who coined "sociology" and gave positivism its name, and Emile Durkheim, who converted its programme into a working method, laid down the classical postulates this question's first half demands.

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  • Classical Positivism's Postulates
  • Post-Positivism — Popper's Falsificationism
  • Post-Positivism — Kuhn's Paradigm-Shift Model
  • What Post-Positivism Retains and What It Abandons
  • Conclusion

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