Is sociology a science?
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- Created on: 01-04-16 12:23
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- Is sociology a science?
- Sociology can be a science
- Karl Marx
- Communism
- 'Scientific socialism'
- Improve society & equality
- Emile Durkheim
- 'Scientific laws'
- Establish patterns of behaviour
- Predict future events
- Cure social ills
- Predict future events
- Establish patterns of behaviour
- 'Scientific laws'
- Comte
- Founding father of sociology
- Society is like the natural world
- Objective factual reality
- Positivist appproach
- Possible
- Science will make society better
- Karl Marx
- Sociology can't be a science
- Weber
- Impossible
- Popper
- Sociologists verify not falsify
- Sociologists use inductive methods
- Scientists try to prove their theories wrong (falsify)
- Deductive method
- doesn't state that it it impossible all together, only in its current form
- Sociologists verify not falsify
- Interpretivists
- We are heterogenous
- Cant be controlled
- Everything about scince is artificial
- We are unpredictable
- Kuhn
- Paradigms
- Shared set of beliefs and assumptions
- Sociologists don't have shared paradigmns
- To become scientific sociologist need to share the same beliefs
- Unrealistic conclusion
- To become scientific sociologist need to share the same beliefs
- Paradigms
- Sociology should be a science
- Generalisable
- Gives sociology prestige
- Influences social policy
- It is desirable
- Credible
- Factual evidence
- Attracts government funding
- sociology needed to compete as it was a threatened subject
- Sociology shouldn't be a science
- Non desirable
- Science is a science
- Scientists cheat
- Claim to be objective
- scientists have an agenda
- recognition
- money
- Career
- manipulate results
- post modernism
- only want it to be scientific as we listen to science, its superior
- Science harms society
- medical harm
- Untitled
- Feminsim
- Science is patriarchal
- gender blind
- establishes a research hierarchy
- Structured interviews
- male stream
- women are discarded when no longer needed
- Sociology can be a science
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