The positivist science: the orderly world

Abstract

The objective of this work is to undertake a critical about science´s development though history, contextualising the element that give the orinin of the positivist science. Consequently, we have done a bibliographical research on the theme in question, systematizing some observations and reflections concerning this process. It is possible to say that the characateristics of this conception of science are present in the current human thought. Tow aspected: a) The positivist science has changed the perspective that man had about himself and the universe, and his relation with it. b) The science has changed limitations once it did not have the answers to many of the problems faced by society, since they require social and political solutions and not only scientific and technical. Due to these limitations, different proposals to science have surged: to become the means by which the scientist move from being the agent of research and social control to a participant element including himself in the research process. It is necessary them that new ways of actions are developed, different from those proposed by the positivist science.