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Sociology and Science
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Sociology and Science
Thomas Kuhn: scientific paridgms
positivism
- Favour science because they can find out cause and effects of certain principles and concepts, For example; sucicide they found out the cause of suicide.
- Positivists like to observes key principles or concepts of society as empirical patterns or regularity
- Sees society as a objective factual reality - it is a real 'thing' that is made up of social facts and every thing like stars etc. really exists out there
- Sociologist can discover laws that determine how society works, This method is know as 'induction' or 'inductive reasoning'.
- Induction consists of accumlataing data and careful observation and measurement
- Favour science because they can find out cause and effects of certain principles and concepts, For example; sucicide they found out the cause of suicide.
Realism, science and sociology
Interprevistism
Karl Popper: how science grows
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