Thus, positivism is concerned with social realities that can be observed and measured with the scientific method (Halperin and Heath, 2012: 29). Consequently, positivists see the world through an objective reality, and this reality offers the “foundation for human knowledge” (JorgenCITE). Positivism accepts that knowledge is a linear process of gathering data and then creating laws, known as induction (Halperin and Heath, 2012: 27). If a theory cannot be falsified through the scientific method, the evidence is then considered verified, which allows the data to be generalized and applied to multiple