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Voluntarism
Ideographic
Nominalism
Anti-positivism
Determinism
Nomothetic
Realism
Positivism
human nature
methodology
ontology
epistemology
The subjectivist approach to social science
The objectivist approach to social science
The subjective-objective dimension
Figure 1.1 A scheme for analysing assumptions about the nature of social science
Gibson Burrell and Gareth Morgan (1979)
Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis: Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life (p. 3)