sociology and the social sciences
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This Slide will not explore only the defination of Sociology. But will also elaborate how Sociology differs from other social science such as, Psychology, Political Science and Economics. It will also enlighten how social sciences has emerged?TRANSCRIPT
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By M.USAMA MANSOOR
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As a social science sociology involves the application of scientific methods to the study of the human aspects of the world.
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The Social Science disciplines involves: Psychology Political Science Economics
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Psychology differs from Sociology as it is the study of the human mind and micro-level
(or individual) behavior and sociology examines human society
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Political science studies the governing of groups and countries while Sociology studies human society
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The concern of both Sociology and Economics is society
but Economics concerns itself with the production and allocation of wealth in society.
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The use of scientific methods differentiates the social sciences from the humanities.
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In ancient philosophy there was no difference between science and humanities.
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Only with the development of mathematical proof did there
gradually arise a perceived difference between scientific disciplines and
the humanities or liberal arts.
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Thus, Aristotle studied planetary motion and poetry with the same methods
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Plato mixed geometrical proofs with his demonstration on the state of intrinsic knowledge.
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During the 17th century A revolution took place in what constituted science particularly with the work of Isaac Newton in physics
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Newton made a sharp distinction between The natural world which he asserted was an independent reality that operated by its own laws and the human or spiritual world.
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Newton’s ideas differed from other philosophers of the same period (such as Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Leibniz, and Johannes Kepler) for whom
mathematical expressions of philosophical ideals were taken to be
symbolic of natural human relationships as well the same laws moved physical and
spiritual reality.
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Newton, along with others, changed the basic framework
by which individuals understood what was scientific.
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In the realm of other disciplines this reformulation of the scientific method
created a pressure to express ideas in the form of mathematical relationships that is unchanging and abstract laws. In the late 19th century, attempts to discover laws regarding human behavior became increasingly common.
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The rise of statistics and probability theory in the 20th century also contributed to the attempt to mathematically model human
behavior in the social sciences.
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In the attempt to study human behavior using scientific and empirical principles
sociologists always encounter dilemmas as humans do not always operate predictably according to natural
laws.
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Hence, even as Durkheim and Marx formulated law-like models of the transition from pre-industrial to industrial
societies
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Weber was interested in the seemingly “irrational” ideas and values
Which in his view, also contributed to the transition.
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The social sciences occupy a middle position between the “hard” natural sciences and the interpretive bent of the humanities.