Positivism Seeks Universal Laws, and Positivist Researchers Attempt to Create

question 28

Multiple Choice

Positivism seeks universal laws, and positivist researchers attempt to create law-like generalizations to explain events in the social world. This focus on laws in explanation is called

• A) nomothetic.
• B) verstehen.
• C) determinism.
• D) ideographic.

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