Discussion
Assertion (A) : Positivism is the view that social phenomena (such as human behaviour) ought to be studied using only the methods of the natural sciences.
Reason (R) : Social science research insists on secondary data.
Select your answer from the codes given below :
Answer: C
(A) is true but (R) is not true.
The assertion is the standard textbook definition of positivism: the view that social phenomena should be studied with the methods of the natural sciences, through observation, measurement and verification.
The reason is false. Social science research does not insist on secondary data; it uses primary data collected through surveys, interviews, observation and experiments as well as secondary sources. So only the first statement holds, which rules out both-true and both-false options and the one making only the reason true.
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