Is sociology a science?

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________ is the approach to sociology that looks for empirical and systematic data.
positivism
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_____________ is the approach to sociology that argues research can never be value free.
interpretivism
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Who was the founder of Positivism?
comte
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He believed that it is possible to discover the ____ that shape society.
laws
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The laws of ___________ look at the relationship between parts of society.
coexistence
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Whereas the laws of __________ look at what are the laws that govern social change.
succession
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Who is a prominent Positivist that comes from a Functionalist background?
durkheim
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He believed that sociology should study social _____.
facts
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He also believed that Comte failed to establish sociology as a _______.
science
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Who was a prominent figure who thought that sociology can and cannot be a science?
kuhn
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However, to be a science sociology must be ________ and consistent.
accurate
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He also believed that a science must go through a series of ________ shifts.
paradigm
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The first of these is ___-science which is a period of discovery with no central framework.
pre
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The next shift is ______ science which is when scientists use established frameworks to support their theories.
normal
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The last phase is _____________ science which is when the central framework is being challenged.
revolutionary
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He believes that sociology is still in the first stage as there is not ________ perspective and lots of competing theories.
dominant
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He also believed that science is not as _________ as we believe.
objective
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Who is a theorist who had a similar opinion?
popper
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He believed that for sociology to be a science it must go through a process of _____________.
falsification
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To test itself sociology must come up with a ________ hypothesis.
testable
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He also believed that Marxism is a pseudo science due to its ________ theories.
abstract
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Who is a prominent interpretivist?
weber
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_________ is the understanding of people when investigating them.
verthen
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He believed that sociology should study society from the ___________ of other people to understand how and why things happen.
perspective
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Who is another interpretivist that comes from a Labeling theorist background?
becker
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He believed that it is impossible to study anything without ______ judgement.
biased
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