Now, you might be wondering where the " positive" in " positivist" comes into play.

现在，您可能想知道“实证主义者”中的“积极”在何处发挥作用。

There are, of course, limitations to sociology as a positivist discipline.

当然，社会学作为一门实证主义学科存在局限性。

We discussed positivist sociology and how sociologists use empirical evidence to explore questions about the social world.

我们讨论了实证主义社会学以及社会学家如何使用经验证据来探索有关社会世界的问题。

But yet another problem with positivist sociology is that not all social facts can be applied to all people, in all time periods.

但实证主义社会学的另一个问题是，并非所有社会事实都适用于所有时期的所有人。

Which brings us to the first of our three types of sociological inquiry: Positivist sociology, or the study of society based on systematic observations of social behavior.

这将我们带到了三种社会学调查中的第一种：实证主义社会学，或基于对社会行为的系统观察的社会研究。

By age and by education he belonged to the stout Positivist tradition, and his habit of thought had been formed in the days of the epic struggle between physics and metaphysics.

就年龄和教育而言，他属于坚定的实证主义传统，他的思维习惯是在物理学与形而上学之间史诗般的斗争时代形成的。

It seems he's begun to feel that there's a Positivist element in it which is narrowing to any one who has gone at all deeply into the Wisdom of the East.

似乎他开始感觉到其中有一种实证主义因素，这种因素正在缩小到任何已经深入了解东方智慧的人。

While positivist sociology is more interested in whether a person acts a certain way – something you can see as an outside observer – interpretative sociology asks: Why this behavior?

虽然实证主义社会学更感兴趣的是一个人是否以某种方式行事——你可以作为一个外部观察者看到的东西——解释社会学会问：为什么会有这种行为？