Karl Popper: Sociology can be Scientific…
Popper believed that social science could be scientific, but that that social scientific knowledge has to be based on deduction […]
Popper believed that social science could be scientific, but that that social scientific knowledge has to be based on deduction […]
Bias – where someone’s personal, subjective feelings or thoughts affect one’s judgement. Falsification – where scientists attempt to design
Positivists argued that sociologists should study society using ‘objective’ quantitative scientific methods. Interpretivists and others argue that sociology should not and cannot be scientific and that it should be more humanistic with multiple interpretations, and they also question whether science itself is truly objective!