Sociology As A Science

Question 1

Who says sociology is a science?

Answer 1

Positivists - due to sociology being objective

Question 2

Sociology is a science

Answer 2

Comte - enlightment era, philosophising isnt enough, sociology need to look at cause and effect. As sociology uses scientific methods it is a science

Durkheim - hypothetico deductive method is same as sci therefore sociology is a science

Question 3

Comte

Answer 3

Enlightment era, philosophising isnt enough, sociology need to look at cause and effect. As sociology uses scientific methods it is a science

Question 4

Durkheim

Answer 4

Sociology is a science as uses hypthetico deductive method

Question 5

Counters for sociology is a science

Answer 5

Can’t see what you test like science

Can’t predict human behaviour as people are irrational

Sociology never value free

Question 6

Sociology isnt a science

Answer 6

Popper - sociology isnt falsifiable like science and sociology is never objective or value free

Kuhn - no universal truth or shared paradigm in sociology as there is in science

Billig - sociology limits itself by trying to be scientific

Question 7

Popper

Answer 7

Popper - sociology isnt falsifiable like science and sociology is never objective or value free

Question 8

Kuhn

Answer 8

Kuhn - no universal truth or shared paradigm in sociology as there is in science

Question 9

Billig

Answer 9

Billig - sociology limits itself by trying to be scientific

Question 10

Sociology can not be a science

Answer 10

Interpretivism

• scientific methodologies arent suitable for sociology
• science deal with cause and effect but people are unpredictable
• science has no free will like sociology, (apple will always fall.)

Mead - people give objects meaning, controlling them from a meaning not external powers like science

Question 11

Mead

Answer 11

Mead - people give objects meaning, controlling them from a meaning not external powers like science