Sociology and Science
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- Created on: 03-02-15 11:31
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- Sociology and Science
- Positivism
- Sociology CAN be a science
- Objective knowledge can solve problems
- Reality is patterned
- Induction- gaining data & patterns through observation
- Verification- developing a theory from inductions (make a law)
- Quantitative date to form hypothesis
- E.g. Durkheim and suicide
- Interpretivism
- Sociology CANNOT be a science
- Society= meaningful social action
- Need to interpret meanings and motives
- Sociology studies people with consciousness and free will
- Put ourselves in the shoes of social actor
- Interactionalists- favour casual explanation
- Phenomenology- society is not a real thing
- Karl Popper
- Sociology CAN be science
- Fallacy of induction- need multiple observations to prove a theory true
- Falsification- trying to prove a theory wrong, if no one can it is accepted
- Theories must be falsified
- Kuhn
- Paradigm- shared values of scientific community
- Science doesn't exist without paradigm
- Society has no paradigm
- Can only be science when shared paradigm exists
- Counter paradigm changes values of community
- Positivism
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