NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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This is the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation
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social statics
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positivism
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rationalization
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mechanical solidarity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Auguste Comte (1798–1857) is the founder of positivism, a philosophical and political movement which enjoyed a very wide diffusion in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Positivism is the name for the scientific study of the social world. Its goal is to formulate abstract and universal laws on the operative dynamics of the social universe. A law is a statement about relationships among forces in the universe. In positivism, laws are to be tested against collected data systematically.
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