SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Method, Investigative Journalism, Human Sexual Activity
5 Oct 2016
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Some disagreement about whether sociology can be a science Can manipulate the laws of society to make a better society o. Suggests sociologist should shoot for interpretive understandings instead of. Extreme interpretivism: scientific method isn"t appropriate for social analysis. Ridiculous -- cant gain knowledge of causation of social processes. Not saying that you cant have insight of causation. Somewhat agreeing with comte who stated that we can understand what"s social relations and why it happen. Weber - we can somewhat understand because we "re also human , we are studying ourselves. We can"t apply to scientific method to social relations. Does it mean that he"s flirting/ some dust in your eye/ mess with a student. We"re observing but we cannot know what the prof is thinking/ getting inside of his head. But just to gain a general understanding, highlight its discourse. Get in depth understanding and make interpretations o. Most sociologist reject extreme positivism and extreme interpretivism.
