ISBN: | 978-5-5128-1325-6 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Antipositivism (also non-positivist or interpretive sociology) is the view in social science that the social realm may not be subject to the same methods of investigation as the natural world; that academics must reject empiricism and the scientific method in the conduct of research. Interpretivists hold that researchers should focus on understanding the meanings that social actions have for the people being studied.