sociology as a science

sociology as a science

1. Durkheims suicide study is argued to be a scientific approach

   • uses scientific methods to create social facts
   • has no influence of researcher values

2. inductive: expecting the results from the data

3. deductive: seeing what results happen

4. Popper: whatever you study will have to be informed by some sort of initial theory

   • principle of falsification: it is easy to disprove something that isn't consistent

5. social action theory claim it is not

   • science is or the natural world and most things studied are inanimate