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.
Sociology - what is positivism? I&#39;ve just started a sociology course and my first unit is on perspectives, focusing on positivism. Can anyone give me a brief exlpanation of this approach and its pros/cons? I&#39;ve looked in loads of textbooks and it&#39;s confusing me so much - I&#39;ve been out of education for a while...