1. Summary
When sociologists study society, there are dozens of ways for research. Empiricism is the way using deductive reasoning. After hypothesis is established, empiricist verify hypothesis by experiment or observation. The approach which Weber call 'Verstehen' is the way using inductive inference. Repeat thorough experiments and observations, people understand society. Both approaches are scientific approaches. A scientific approach is used to verify that a hypothesis is correct when establishing a theory.
Correlation and causation are also widely used when explaining social phenomena. Correlations and causation seem to be similar, but they must be used differently because they are different.
There are 'quantitative methods' quantifying social phenomena and 'qualitative methods' focusing just social phenomena. We do not need to only one way to studying about social phenomena. You can look at social phenomena in many ways. When interpreting sociology, it can be viewed subjectively, objectively, or critically.
2. New/interesting point
When I study sociology, I thought I should be critical with sociology. However, various perspectives are used to study sociology. There were really many ways to study sociology. I want to learn more about the approaches needed to study sociology through future classes.
3. Discussion point
If you did 100 experiments for verifying hypothesis, and if one is wrong, then the hypothesis is wrong?
When sociologists study society, there are dozens of ways for research. Empiricism is the way using deductive reasoning. After hypothesis is established, empiricist verify hypothesis by experiment or observation. The approach which Weber call 'Verstehen' is the way using inductive inference. Repeat thorough experiments and observations, people understand society. Both approaches are scientific approaches. A scientific approach is used to verify that a hypothesis is correct when establishing a theory.
Correlation and causation are also widely used when explaining social phenomena. Correlations and causation seem to be similar, but they must be used differently because they are different.
There are 'quantitative methods' quantifying social phenomena and 'qualitative methods' focusing just social phenomena. We do not need to only one way to studying about social phenomena. You can look at social phenomena in many ways. When interpreting sociology, it can be viewed subjectively, objectively, or critically.
2. New/interesting point
When I study sociology, I thought I should be critical with sociology. However, various perspectives are used to study sociology. There were really many ways to study sociology. I want to learn more about the approaches needed to study sociology through future classes.
3. Discussion point
If you did 100 experiments for verifying hypothesis, and if one is wrong, then the hypothesis is wrong?
I agree with you. I also want to learn about the approaches that I need to study sociology. And for your question, I think that hypothesis is not wrong. If you experiment with infinity, you can succeed once. The number 100 is large. But the hypothesis is not wrong because there is still a chance of success.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question, I think the hypothesis is wrong if one experiment results in a different one. The hypothesis is that it is established before the setting of the perfect true proposition, and one false test proves that it is not true. Also, the theory that have been considered to be right for a long time is suddenly denied when the counterparts appear over time.
ReplyDeleteFrom the discussion point of Sujin, inductive reasoning comes up. According to the inductive reasoning, although there were a lot of observations, the hypothesis could not be true if one observation is false. For example, there is a hypothesis ‘All crows are black. ’. Now, observed crows are black. But if one white crow is observed, this hypothesis becomes false.
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