Sociology: The Science of What? - A Pre- or Multi-Paradigmatic Discipline, Slides of Research Methodology

The debate on whether sociology can be considered a 'science' in the same way as natural sciences. The elusive nature of 'society' and presents four theoretical perspectives: symbolic interactionism, marxism, ethnomethodology, and functionalism. It also references thomas kuhn's definition of 'normal science' and morris cohen's arguments against sociology's scientific nature due to the complexity and variability of social phenomena, differences in 'laws' between natural and social sciences, and disparities in natural and social causation.