SociologyandScienceUsing the words listed below, complete the following list of criticisms made of positivism by interpretive sociologists:

  1. Sociology never can nor should try to be a__________.
  2. Sociologists can rarely produce the kinds of__________conditions for study such as those of the scientist’s laboratory.
  3. Research findings are not__________by other sociologists as the research situation can never be precisely__________.
  4. It is impossible to quantify human behaviour in the same way as__________phenomena.
  5. Human beings have__________and may react to the researcher in different ways.
  6. The__________that people attach to events and actions are internal and cannot be directly measured.
  7. Human action depends on individual__________.
  8. The design of__________to test imposes the views of the researcher on what is discovered.

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