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The first goal of evry single scince is to explain why somthing happens.
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The second goal is to make generalizations
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The third goal is predict, to specify in the light of current knowledge what will happend in the future
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As sociologists do their research, they sometimes face pressure to keep things secret
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Applying the scientific method to the social world, a process calles positivism, apparently was first proposed by Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte is credited the founder of sociology too. -
people tried tto figure out how social life works. Mesured by this standard, sociology emerged about the middle of the 1800 -
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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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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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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He ussed cross cultural and historical materials to trace the causes of social change and to determine how social groups affect people
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Weber disagreed with marx that the economics where is the central force of the social change, he said that that role belongs to religion