Is sociology a science

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Characteristics of Science.
- Value Freedom.
- Reliability.
- Cause and effect.
- Objectivity.
- Hypothetico-deductive model.
- Verifiability.
- Ethical neutrality.
- Falsifiable.
- Hypothesis testing.
- Empirical observation.
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Sociology is a Science - Positivism.
Durkheim's Suicide Study illustrates the positivist view of science. It is the most influential on sociology. Based on:
- There are objective facts about the social world that can be expressed in statistics.
- These facts are not influenced by personal be
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Sociology is not a Science - Karl Popper.
Popper believed that social science could be scientific, but that that social scientific knowledge has to be based on deduction and falsification (rather than induction and verification).
For Popper, sociology can be scientific if it makes precise predict
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Sociology is not a Science - Interpretivism.
Weber sees sociology as the study of social action and therefore requires verstehen to understand why people behave in particular ways. This can be seen in his study of The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism.
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