Positivism vs. Qualitative. Here we are going to be looking at the history of blk life and then attempting to add in our own interpretation and analysis of some aspect of blk life. How can we understand blk people's life. What are the patterns of culture, are they subject to law-like behaviors. This is the assumption of positivism.
Prediction is possible.
Is human society in and of itself different from the natural world. Thus the tendency for descriptions of the phenotypically different other encourages citizens to link phenotypic differences with presumptions about moral character, personality, interpersonal behavior, and intelligence. Everday terms such as white and Black actually have little empirical meaning, except in the most stereotypical way. In qualitative research, to construct meanings of whiteness or Blackness is to interpret interview or observational data, usually drawn from subjects who have been well socialized into the racial norms of society. One norm is the assumption that everyone in American has a racial identity.