Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Science History, Sociological Inquiry, French Revolution
19 Jan 2018
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Limitations: lacks the rigour that a social science can provide, based on reactions to what is already going on in world, contradictory. Sociology contributions: sociology can provide empirical tests: religious thought. Limitations: tends to be appeal to first and final causes, appeal to particular authority, overarching set of beliefs form which all knowledge comes from to be deduced. Sociology contributions: greater appeal to logic, sociological explanations make greater appeals to the truth that are impartial: philosophy: highly analytical. Limitations: concerned with coherence of logic and the logic of an argument but whether or not it is concerned with empirical reality. Sociology contributions: owes a lot to philosophy, but it is analytical and synthetic, attempts to synthesize the logical concerns with empirical investigation, investigates and evaluates empirical phenomena: history: ideographic. Sociology contributions: tends to be more concerned with the general. Limitations: uncontrolled, results are not always reliable, sample size usually small (selection bias), cant always be refuted.
