These theories were brought from positivistic criminology which looked at epistemological perspectives of delinquency. PI is considered an interpretive/hermeneutic approach of theory rather than positivistic/empirical (i.e., predictive) or critical. In psychology, a positivistic approach has historically been favoured in behaviourism. Blumer was also a vociferous critic of positivistic methodological ideas in sociology. From the positivistic point of view, equality is antithetic to arbitrariness. Cultural Institutions Studies do not claim objectivity and a positivistic analysis. Murko was trained in the positivistic style of philology. The positivistic contempt for theoretical deliberations is evident in these two quotations. This part of uncertainty reduction theory demonstrates the positivistic approach Berger and Calabrese took. He is known as the new positivistic research on the Economy of Joseon. Between 1897 and 1899, Cankar's core ideas were essentially positivistic. Couch denounced the traditional positivistic model where human action was understood as responses to stimuli.