Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Antipositivism, Fire Alarm System, Verstehen
13 Apr 2014
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How do we come to know" something. If you think god exists, going to find a lot of reasons for why he exists. Knowledge in the social sciences should be gathered in the same way as the natural sciences. So science is the way that we should find out about people. Empirical (based on the senses) have to be able to put it on a chart. There are social laws and principles just like natural ones. Would look like the law of gravity except it would be for human beings. We can use deduction to find support for these laws. Less often, we can use induction to discover new laws. Comte"s law of 3 stages all human societies go through 3 stages theological, metaphysical then the 3rd positive stage finally grown up, hit the enlightenment. Thought that all societies would go through these stages in a progressive manner. Marx"s historical materialism peoples relationship to material resources.
