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THE FIRST GOAL OF SCINCE
The first goal of evry single scince is to explain why somthing happens. -
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THE SECOND GOAL OF SCINCE
The second goal is to make generalizations -
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THE THIRD GOAL
The third goal is predict, to specify in the light of current knowledge what will happend in the future -
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THE RISKS OF BEING A SOCIOLOGIST
As sociologists do their research, they sometimes face pressure to keep things secret -
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AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM
Applying the scientific method to the social world, a process calles positivism, apparently was first proposed by Auguste Comte
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ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY
people tried tto figure out how social life works. Mesured by this standard, sociology emerged about the middle of the 1800 -
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KARL MARX
He belived that the roots of human misery lay in class conflict, the explotation of workers by those who own the means of production -
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HERBER SPENCER
he was called the second founder of sociology, coinethat d the term surcical of the fittest. Spencer thought that helping the poor was wrong that this merely helped the less fit survive -
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EMILE DURKHEIM
he contributed many important concepts to sociology. one of those was: peple are more likely to commit suicide if their communities are weak -
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MAX WEBER
He ussed cross cultural and historical materials to trace the causes of social change and to determine how social groups affect people -
RELIGION AND THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM
Weber disagreed with marx that the economics where is the central force of the social change, he said that that role belongs to religion