1. Value-free sociology
The positivist tradition concentrates on producing 'objective' data, most often in the form of statistics. This quantative data is then subjected to analysis and causal correlations are established. An example would be Blauner (Alienation and Freedoms 1964 in McNeill 1990) It was hypothesized that different levels of alienation are causally linked with different types of industrial processes. ... The main priority was that there be no suspicion that the collected data had been affected by the researchers' own values. ...
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