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.
If we take the above example based on a positivist perspective, epistemology in the social world would be based on the belief that only a scientific approach would lead us to knowledge, as social phenomena are considered as things, and things can be measured and defined scientifically (Lazar, 1998).f we take the above example based on a positivist perspective, epistemology in the social world would be based on the belief that only a scientific approach would lead us to knowledge, as social phenomena are considered as things, and things can be measured and defined scientifically (Lazar, 1998).