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Positivism
Actor-Network
Theory (A marvellous online archive. Another one here
Try a brief intro to Latour here.)
Comte
on positivism
Facts
and values (a useful discussion of Putnam's work)
Methodenstreit
(dispute about whether there can be a social science)
Positivist Dispute (really a clash between critical
theorists and critical rationalists. See also Adorno and Popper)
See also Adorno's lecture series on Sociology, given in the late
1960s, which has many of the points reflecting the ongoing debate with
his positivist critics: Adorno, T. (2002) Introduction to Sociology,
Cambridge: Polity press.
Positivism
and postmodernism (includes an index to further reading)
Radical
Academy (introduction to positivism with useful further reading)
St Louis, B. (2004) 'Sport and
common sense racial science', in Leisure
Studies, 23(1): 31 - 46
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