Sociology &Science- Popper, Kuhn, Realism
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- Created on: 08-06-15 19:12
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- Sociology and Science
- Popper
- Growth of science
- Falsificationism
- Believes that it is not possible to know the absolute truth because you cant prove things are entirely correct but you can prove that they're wrong.
- Growth of science
- Kuhn
- he thought that scientists took a lot of assumptions about the world for granted-
- this way of looking at the world is called a "paradigm"
- he says scientists are constrained by the pardigm
- for example, for 100s of years people thorught the sun rotated around the earth- for years many observations and interpretations were made acording to the paradigm "sun rotates the earth"
- Scientific revolution
- Kuhn says that leaps in scientific research occur when evidence appears which DOES NOT support the paradigm & it cannot be ignored
- he thought that scientists took a lot of assumptions about the world for granted-
- Realists
- Closed Systems
- Where the researcher can control & measure all variables! Laboratory experiments
- Open Systems
- where the researcher cannot control variables so they cannot make precise predictions. (meteorologists cannot 100% predict the weather)
- Both sides! They say sociology could well be scientific.
- BUT it must be accepted that it is not always possible to study things which can be directly observed. Instead both observable and unobservable interactions need to be studied.
- Closed Systems
- Popper
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