1. Positivism
- Positivists lean toward
quantitative strategies, for example, social reviews, organized
polls and authority measurements in light of the fact that these
have great unwavering quality and representativeness.
- Positivists consider society to be
molding the individual and accept that 'social realities' shape
singular activity.
- The positivist custom anxieties the
significance of doing quantitative exploration, for example,
enormous scope studies so as to get a diagram of society in general
and to reveal social patterns, for example, the connection between
instructive accomplishment and social class. This sort of human
science is keener on patterns and examples as opposed to
people.
- Positivists additionally accept
that humanism can and should utilize similar strategies and ways to
deal with study the social world that "regular" sciences, for
example, science and material science use to examine the physical
world. By embracing "logical" procedures sociologists ought to be
capable, inevitably, to reveal the laws that oversee social orders
similarly as researchers have found the laws that administer the
physical world.
2. Interpretivism
contends that people are not simply manikins who respond to outer
social powers as Positivists accept. As per Interpretivists people
are multifaceted and mind-boggling and various individuals
encounter and comprehend the equivalent 'target reality' in totally
different ways and have their own, frequently altogether different,
explanations behind acting on the planet, in this manner logical
techniques are not suitable.
- Interpretivism’ research strategies
get from 'social activity hypothesis'
- Intereptivists really scrutinize
'logical humanism' (Positivism) in light of the fact that a large
number of the measurements it depends on are themselves socially
developed.
- Interpretivism contends that so as
to comprehend human activity we have to accomplish 'Verstehen', or
sympathetic comprehension – we have to see the world through the
eyes of the on-screen characters doing the acting.
3. Realism: It is
in expressions of the human experience, the exact, point by point,
unembellished delineation of nature or of contemporary life.
Realism rejects innovative admiration for a nearby perception of
outward appearances. Accordingly, Realism in its expansive sense
has included numerous imaginative flows in various human
advancements. The Realists delineated ordinary subjects and
circumstances in contemporary settings and endeavored to portray
people of every social class along these lines. Old style optimism,
Romantic emotionalism, and dramatization were maintained a
strategic distance from similarly, and regularly ignoble or chaotic
components of subjects were displayed to some degree, rather than
being enhanced or precluded. Social Realism underscored the
portrayal of the common laborers and rewarded average workers
individuals with a similar reality as different classes in
workmanship. Realism additionally planned to stay away from phony
in the treatment of human relations and feelings.