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Outline and evaluate the usefulness of adopting a scientific approach to the study of sociology.
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David Rowley Outline and evaluate the usefulness of adopting a scientific approach to the study of sociology First we need to now what science is: science is having a theory. And be collecting data through empirical means and being able to test it, while being objective. From that you would think that adopting a scientific approach to the study of sociology would be useful, while anti-positivists would argue that it is useful, but impossible. Anti-positivists/ Interpretivists reject the scientific method and believe it is impossible to use it on human society because it is impossible to avoid using values. Scientific approaches are also used in natural sciences like chemistry, biology, and they use the hypothetico-deductive method, and so it was used by Comte and Durkheim because it was the fashion of the time, but they altered this because they realised humans can not be studied in laboratories. So Durkheim can up with...
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