A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology

Bibliography: leaves 232-239. === The debate between positivists on the one hand, and anti-positivists such as Habermas and Marcuse on the other, about the possibility of an objective value-free social science seems to have reached an impasse: Positivists continue to assert that the facts and laws o...

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Main Author: Romm, Norma R A
Other Authors: Von Broembsen, Marlese
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9932