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ASC 100:INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
GROUP WORK QUESTION;
Sociology as a science
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lecture; Dr
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Otiato Wafula
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Explain how sociology is a science
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Sociologists study people as they form groups and interact with one
another
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Sociology engages in
organized, systematic study of phenomena in order to enhance
understanding
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Science is a body of systematic
knowledge
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A science is “a
branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths
systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws
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Science adopts scientific method
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Science has the following characteristics such as
objectivity, observation, accurate prediction, experimentation, accurate
measurement, generalization and cause-effect relationships
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The methods
used are still the same methods used by different scientists in their day to
day activities
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Through those
methods of collection of data it affirms that sociology can be termed as a
science
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Observation
is possible in the field of sociology even if it does not possess a
laboratory
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The whole social world is the laboratory of sociology
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Sociology makes observation of
tribal marriage at the time of occurrence
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Hence
Sociology is a science
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Like natural sciences Sociology also makes objective study
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Further Survey and renewal
proves this
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New techniques and methods are also introduced to make
social phenomena more objective
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Sociology describes cause-effect relationship
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While studying
family or population growth Sociology has traced the relationship
between family disorganization and divorce and population growth and
poverty
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Thus sociology describes cause-effect
relationship in social disorganization and population explosion
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Sociology makes accurate measurement
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By using
statistical method, socio-metric scale, scales of measurement sociology
effectively and accurately measures social relationships
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Sociology makes accurate Prediction
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On
the basis of cause-effect relationship sociology can accurately predict
about future
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Cuvier opines this predictive value of Sociology is improved
day by day
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Sociology makes generalization
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Like natural
sciences Sociology became able to draw generalization which is
universally applicable
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Therefore its true to define SOCIOLOGY as the SCIENCE of social
phenomena "subject to natural and invariable laws, the discovery of
which is the object of investigation" as stated by August Comete the
founding father of sociology
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2) Harry M
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3) Emile Durkheim: "Science of social institutions"
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5) Small defines sociology as "the science of social relationships"
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7) Ogburn and Nimkoff : "Sociology is the scientific study of social life"
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9) Henry Fairchild: "Sociology is the study of man and his human environment in their
relations to each other"
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11) Alex Inkeles says, "Sociology is the study of systems of social action and of their interrelations"
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Mack say, "Sociology is the scientific study of social
aspects of human life"
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He defines sociology in the
following way: "In the broadest sense, sociology is the study of human interactions and
inter-relations, their conditions and consequences"