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——_—_—_— Dominant Approaches and - © Ideas in the Social § 3 Sciences Essential Understanding Lessons in Chapter 2 Lesson 4 Positivist Social Science science. The picture shown above encapsulates the essence of the said approach, whicle claims that parts of society all contribute to the “functional” operation of the system in general. In structural-functionalism, social balance and equilibrium are created when all parts of society are operating well. Similarly, a jigsaw puzzle will ‘only be complete when all the pieces are placed in their rightful positions. Aside from structural-functionalism, we will alo study two more approaches under positivist social Sennen is one of the approaches categorized under positivist social sciences. These approaches are rational choice theory and institutionalism. Focus Questions + How does posts see the world? \Whyave functions more important than structures in struturaHunctionasm? How does one come up witha decision based onthe rational choice theory? How does the constitutive nature of informal and frm institutions constrain human behavior? Lesson Four Lesson Objectives [At the end of the lesson the students are expected to be ableto ‘explain positivism as one of the paradigms in the social sciences

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