What Is One Criticism of the Positivist Approach to Studying

question 54

Multiple Choice

What is one criticism of the positivist approach to studying sexuality?

• A) It ignores disconfirming evidence and isn't scientifically valid.
• B) It does not allow for the exploration of "taboo" subjects.
• C) It lends itself to bias.
• D) It ignores personal experience; and to understand sex you must understand personal experience.

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Definitions:

Marxist Socialists

Ideologists who follow the teachings of Karl Marx, advocating for a society without classes where the means of production are owned collectively.

Reform Socialists

Advocates a peaceful, evolutionary transition of society to socialism through legal and political reforms rather than revolutionary upheaval.

Anarchism

A political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary, cooperative institutions and the rejection of all involuntary, coercive forms of hierarchy.

Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism.