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| Expanding the work of Otto Rank (1945), an artist who broke with Freudian orthodoxy, the functionalists eschewed positivistic notions and instead advocated for a more humanistic, holistic understanding of the human experience (Pray, 1949; Smalley, 1967; Taft, 1958 & 1962). A positivistic approach to research generally dictates that the act of analysis occurs only after all the data has been acquired. In particular, the positivistic leanings of contemporary sociology put qualitative researchers at a disadvantage over their quantitative counterparts, especially in pragmatic concerns over venues for publication and research funding (Ragin, Nagel, and White 2004). |
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