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abstracted empiricism

abstracted empiricism noun: a term created by C. Wright Mills to describe sociological work that has a high focus on empirical methodology, particularly work that fixated with survey methods and their quantifiability.

Noun

abstracted empiricism (uncountable)

  1. a term created by C. Wright Mills to describe sociological work that has a high focus on empirical methodology, particularly work that fixated with survey methods and their quantifiability.

Questions about abstracted empiricism

What does abstracted empiricism mean?
Abstracted empiricism means a term created by C. Wright Mills to describe sociological work that has a high focus on empirical methodology, particularly work that fixated with survey methods and their quantifiability.
What part of speech is abstracted empiricism?
Abstracted empiricism is a noun.

Words near abstracted empiricism in the dictionary

  1. abstract verb
  2. abstract verbs
  3. abstracta
  4. abstractable
  5. abstracted
  6. abstracted empiricism
  7. abstractedly
  8. abstractedness
  9. abstractedst
  10. abstracter
  11. abstracters

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