Is sociology a science?
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 18-05-19 10:44
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- Is sociology a science?
- yes
- comte and durkiem (positivists)
- society is a reality that exists externally from individuals and reality is patterned
- aim to establish cause and effect, create general laws, explain large scale patterns
- social facts- values gender, social norms which exsist and shape us
- preffer: official statistics and experiments
- inductive logic- study first then hypothesis and verificationism- assumptions based on evidence that supports
- durkhiems suicide study- statistics show due to level of intergration and social control
- no, never will be
- interpretivists- weber
- study of internal meaning not external causes. social action not social facts
- prefer: documents, unstructured interviews
- subjectivity vs objectivity
- studying people (consciousness and meaning) vs studying objects (no consciousness, external forces)
- phenomenologists and ethnomethodologists
- society isn't real
- could be in principle
- karl popper
- disagrees with verificatonism
- deductive logic- hypothesis first, they want to prove it correct
- falsificationism- proving something right by not being able to prove it wrong
- can never accept science as the absolute truth- always be proved wrong
- could be a science if used deductive logic and falsifictionism
- Thomas kuhn
- sicence operates within a paradigm- educated and socialised to accept current paradigm as true and uncritical of it
- sociology has different compteting theoris and doesn't have a community
- sociology is pre- paradigmatic
- kuhns model- normal sicence, anomalies, crisis, paradigm shifts
- could be a sicence if it adopted a unfired community and disagreements were resolved
- karl popper
- realist view
- social and natural science are similar apart from the systems they operate in
- keat and urry
- natural- closed whilst social- open but both are partly open as they study unobserved phenomenon
- yes
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