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6. Sociologist who demonstrated the scientific nature of sociology in his study of suicide.

  • Douglas
  • Durkheim
  • Marx

7. Sociologist who favours the falsification principle over inductive reasoning

  • Atkinson
  • Popper
  • Kuhn

8. Perspective in which society and its 'laws' exist externally to us.

  • Post-Modernism
  • Positivism
  • Interpretivisim

9. Perspective that suggests that scientific methods are unsuitable in sociological research.

  • Interpretivism
  • Functionalism
  • Positivism

10. Kuhn argues that sociology cannot be scientific until a _________ exists.

  • Paradigm
  • Meta-narrative
  • Revolution

11. According to Popper a good theory should be what?

  • Observable
  • Falsifiable
  • Verifiable