Is Sociology

Is Sociology a Science? To decide whether or not sociology is a science we must first understand the terminology of the word science. Science literally means knowledge. Systematically observing and analazing a theory made. The information gathered must then be validated over a period of time and the final data then correlated. This whole process giving ‘facts’ that people feel to be reliable. These methods are applied to the natural sciences such as biology and …

…a more open understanding than other sciences as if a theory in natural science is not always proven to be correct it is often ignored and presumed that the experiment was incorrectly preformed by the for example chemist. Where as in social science if the same problem occurs the sociologist will review the theory and if necessary a new theory will be made. Sociology is therefore an open a constantly evolving people’s Social Science.