Is Sociology A Science?

What is falsification?

• Science should try and prove hypotheses wrong.

• An assumed way of looking at the world.

• The idea that behaviour is influenced by external social factors.

• The idea that behaviour can only be explained by using empathy and looking at the individual.

What is paradigm?

• Science should try and prove hypotheses wrong.

• An assumed way of looking at the world.

• The idea that behaviour is influenced by external social factors.

• The idea that behaviour can only be explained by using empathy and looking at the individual.

What is positivism?

• Science should try and prove hypotheses wrong.

• An assumed way of looking at the world.

• The idea that behaviour is influenced by external social factors.

• The idea that behaviour can only be explained by using empathy and looking at the individual.

What is interpretivism?

• Science should try and prove hypotheses wrong.

• An assumed way of looking at the world.

• The idea that behaviour is influenced by external social factors.

• The idea that behaviour can only be explained by using empathy and looking at the individual.

Who came up with the principle of falsification?

• Popper (1959, 1962)

• Comte

• Durkheim

• Marx

Whose theory is based on paradigms?

• Kaplan

• Baskhar

• Popper (1959, 1963)

• Kuhn (1962)

Who argues that sociology is the scientific study of an open system?

• Sayer (1984)

• Baskhar

• Popper (1959, 1963)

• Kuhn (1962)

Who argues that sociologists need to use empathy when studying an individual?

• Sayer (1984)

• Weber

• Popper (1959, 1963)

• Kuhn (1962)

Which perspective believes that sociology should balance scientific and non-scientific methods?

• Marxists

• Positivists

• Interpretivists

• Realists

Realists argue both sociology and science use the same two systems. What are they?

• Open and closed.

• Objective and subjective.

• Near and far.

• Protected and non-protected.