In terms of sociology, the positivist approach makes the following assumptions.

The positivist approach in sociology places particular emphasis on behaviour that can be directly observed.

The positivist approach to human behaviour applies a similar logic.

It has often been argued that systems theory in sociology adopts a positivist approach.

However, it is probably fair to say that systems theory is closer to a positivist approach than the views which will now be considered.

The positivist approach assumes that a science of society is possible.

The positivist approach claims to be objective but it is no more ideology-free than any other.

Even within its own terms of reference, the positivist approach has problems.

As a científico, the prevailing intellectual movement of the period, he believed in the positivist approach to science and to history.

This positivist approach to international law strengthened over time.