The social world is organised and there are ways to study it
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What are they influenced by?
Natural sciences, scientists showed that animals, plants, chemicals behave in a predictable way since natural law exists
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What do they believe?
Humans can be studied directly- behave in a predictable way like natural phenomena eg- chemicals, volcano's
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How did they say humans should be treated
Like objects that can be studied
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What did Durkheim say about Social facts
Social laws or forces shape and determine the social actions of people- just like natural laws govern behaviour of natural phenomena
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What do they say about Human Behaviour
The social structure of particular societies form social forces or laws- people have little control over them
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From their perspective-
Free will/ individualism/ ability to make choices- not as influential as social laws/ forces
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What do they believe about individual behaviour
Products of social forces that are beyond ones control- Humans puppets of society
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Since humans are seen as puppets of society
They behave in patterned ways so we can predicts behaviour - trends in human behaviour can then be observed and recorded- turned into statistics
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What does support
The notion that humans can be studied like natural phenomena
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What is their approach
Macro approach- look at relationship between different parts of social structure- look how it affects human behaviour of members in society
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Give an example
Why some groups in society rich, others poor- look at structural forces such as patriarchy/racism/social class influence the wealthy and poor behaviour/ how social structures such as how economy and political system interact- produce wealthy and poor
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What type of data do they prefer
Quantitative data- especially in the form of secondary data
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Why do they like secondary data such as documents/ official statistics
Usually come from systematic and standardised procedures
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What type of research method do they prefer
Social surveys/ unstructured interviews
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Why do they like quantitative data
Like collecting data that can be turned into statistics so patterns and trends can be looked at
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Card 2
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Natural sciences, scientists showed that animals, plants, chemicals behave in a predictable way since natural law exists
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What are they influenced by?
Card 3
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Humans can be studied directly- behave in a predictable way like natural phenomena eg- chemicals, volcano's
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Card 4
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Like objects that can be studied
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Card 5
Front
Social laws or forces shape and determine the social actions of people- just like natural laws govern behaviour of natural phenomena
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