Evidence and proof

Jessica, I partially agree and partially disagree with you on how science is different and more concrete than sociology. I agree with your statement about how science can produce the same result from conducting experiments over and over, thus creating theories that correspond with their experiments. However, I disagree with your case of sociology and how it isn't seen as being as concrete as science. Although there are some truths to having different results on multiple occasions due to the subject being humans, I believe that there are many sociological theories that are extremely applicable to our current lives when they were constructed well before our days. Without a doubt there is a higher factor of error in sociology but there are also many errors in science when conducting experiments. Nonetheless, I believe that sociology is and should be considered as relevant and accurate as any form of science.

Hi Lukas,

I also agree that there are many sociological theories that are still relevant in our lives and can describe our current state of being. For example, just in the case of Marx's writings, almost everything he says still applies to our present day world and practically all schools of knowledge has at one point or another referenced Marx. However, at the same time what Marx believed is only one side of things, or seeing the world from one such perspective. As we have learned, he is a materialist which means that he sees the world by production and consumption but that is only one ideology of the world. In other words, people who are let's say idealists may see the world differently including why people act in the way they act. As a result of this, what makes one theorist more correct about the world than the other? While in science, no matter how many times they perform an experience, they will eventually get the same results as long as they hold certain things constant. Although I'm sure that there are still scientific theories that are up for debate, but relatively its findings (regarding their laws) are less disputed between scientists such as the laws of gravity.