sociology science Flashcards
positivism: auguste and comte
base ideas on the true objective knowledge-concerned with solving problems and achieving progress/end result belief society made up of objectives observable features and factual reality
what is science
pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of natural and scale worldfollwing systematic mehtodlfy based on evidence
auguste and comte - objective observation and satistics
whichh search for correlations of laws and social world. done w/o researchers belts or values being infleucnial on Datta or research progress. develop quantitative data
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inductive reasoning
socialising can discover laws of cause and effect that explain social patters
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verification
when the idea / theory is developed, many more observations must occur to verify, positivist favour macro level/sturtcural explanation fo society
patters exist
bc society exerts influence over member > shaping our behaviour in various ways
interpretisvsm: study of human society
must go beyond empirical and supposedly objective evidence. research can’t really est social facts and trying to make everything emareuable and reliable, they stop it being real
intepretivism: world socially constructed
norms and values dev due to us , knowledge itself is whatever we agree it to be, context is huge part of knowledge science not value as it removed content and integer with subject matter
WEBER: i
social action theory support as never truly know who we are unless alone , soc is study of social action req verhshin
GIDDENS I
devoid structuration theory, this infleucnes that structure have on individuals whilst understanding meanings they attach to them/ choice of accpeitng/rej social sinsitutions
DOUGLAD I
rejects use of official satistics on suicie
(dukehinim- family may conceal death and cassyfing into groups that may have nothing t to di with ti)
