With a lot of red meat and explosions galore, the zombie apocalypse returned to AMC last night bigger than ever. The Season 5 debut of The Walking Dead pulled in 17.3 million total viewers on Sunday at 9 PM with 11 million among adults 18-49.
Positivism was a method for studying society proposed by Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who founded the study of sociology. Comte's bias was against metaphysics, a philosophy based largely on speculation about the nature of things.
This approach to sociological research is known as positive science-positivism. Socio-political Context-Modernists contend that sociology emerged out of two major revolutions of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Starting with the French revolution of 1789 and then the Industrial Revolution of Europe.