Sociology 1025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Data Analysis
5 Dec 2016
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Sociology perceived as a body of common sense and personal opinions. Common sense ideas and observations may serve you well but scienti c ways of knowing can better help you understand more accuracy in wider context of society. Scienti c side of sociology helps avoid some pitfalls of common sense and nd more answers. Sociology is a social science as a discipline it seeks to enhance our knowledge of people + society using empirical methods (data collection methods that produce veri able ndings) Systemic procedures steps are taken to design + carry out research are organized, methodical, and standardized in a way that they are recognized by other researchers. Procedures must be so clear that another research could verify the decisions + processes undertaken and even replicate the study. Some scholars equate the scienti c method exclusively w/ positivism, others have a broader view of what it is as a rigorous means of developing new knowledge through various approaches.
